"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of ...

Diseases were generally treated by attempting ... largest number of diseased persons encountered in America in the nineteenth century. Tens of thousands left military service with chronic ...

Attitudes about public health changed over the course of the nineteenth century, but the association of disease with the less affluent lingered in the minds of the upper class. During the early part ...

Cases of the 19th century disease are continuing to rise after peaking last year - prompting officials to declare a "serious ...

The year is 1900. . . . What societal factors influenced health, particularly of susceptibility and occurrence of infectious diseases? Which infectious diseases were prevalent? What ideas about ...

By the late 19th century, the government was more willing ... During this period, diseases targeted by vaccination programmes included rabies and typhoid.

Among the myriad remarkable changes in the last thousand years has been the evolution of our understanding and management of infectious diseases ... snapshot of the last century with a focus ...