Scotland's World Cup match against Brazil was expected to attract plenty of attention -- but an anticipated alien invasion was not on the list.

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A flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has sickened nearly 160 Air Force recruits, turning a basic training health problem into a national debate over military readiness, vaccine policy, ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

IN 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East Smithfield, a medieval cemetery in London. Besides human DNA, they were able to ...

Ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers buried near Lake Baikal in Siberia suggests there were deadly outbreaks of the plague as long as 5500 years ago. The finding runs counter to the long-standing idea ...

Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the ...

The first half of 2026 has been marked by three different disease outbreaks: Ebola, hantavirus and, in Australia, diphtheria. Each has exposed vulnerabilities in how we detect, communicate and respond ...

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Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak. A health worker in the town of Mongbwalu, Democratic ...

In June 2026, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a case of New World screwworm in Texas, a claim (archived) circulated online that Department of Government Efficiency cuts caused the once ...