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1 day ago · The Black Death killed tens of millions of people in the mid-1300s, but scientists and historians are still trying to figure out how it spread. Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0
4 days ago · Today, thanks to a global scientific effort, smallpox is the only human disease we have wiped off the face of the Earth, and the world was declared smallpox-free on 8 May 1980. Although the ...
4 days ago · Smallpox could then launch a devastating pandemic the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since, well, since the last time smallpox roamed the earth. Although this is a remote possibility, lab ...
1 day ago · The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans.
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3 days ago · Getty Images New England: Smallpox (1633-1634) ... 28 fake ghost photos that went viral. Getty Images ... AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death in the US among people 25 to 44 years old.
2 days ago · These two Chandra images show hot gas in the middle of the galaxy cluster Abell 478 (left) and the galaxy group NGC 5044 (right). The center of each image contains one of the sixteen black holes firing beams outwards. Each black hole is in the center of a galaxy embedded in the hot gas. By mousing over the images, labels and the radio images ...
2 days ago · A chimpanzee at BIOPARC Valencia, a zoo park in Valencia, Spain, has been carrying the body of her dead child for three months. The baby ape died two weeks after their birth in February 2024.
