Pope John Paul II often reminded us of the loss of a sense of sin and the need for a return to the practice of frequent confession. The moral relativism that is causing much of this loss of a sense of ...

Technicians at Canada's main polio vaccine supplier at the time, Connaught Laboratories, working on a step of vaccine formulation in 1955. Fox Photos via Getty Images It was the summer of 1959, when ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Infectious diseases have plagued humankind throughout ...

Near the end of Albert Camus’ classic novel (1947), The Plague, Camus remarks through the narrator and protagonist, Dr. Bernard Rieux: “When he felt tempted to add some confidence of his own to the ...

In certain areas of Africa, one in four adults is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and around the world the disease now rivals the greatest epidemics of history, according to a United Nations ...

In a 1991 essay, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins compared the spread of disease-causing viruses with socially contagious units of culture. He argued that these are passed from human minds ...

When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

ACCORDING to Selwyn D. Collins, head statistician of the United States Public Health Service (Public Health Rep., 59, 1483; 1944), in the eighteen major or minor epidemics of influenza that have ...

For what it’s worth, and because you asked for notes about this: my grandfather died in what I believe was the second wave of the pandemic on September 24, 1918. He was 26 and otherwise very healthy.

In a 1991 essay, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins compared the spread of disease-causing viruses with socially contagious units of culture. He argued that these are passed from human minds ...