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 ...

Every year, there are many disease near-misses around the world, outbreaks that are stopped before they explode into full-blown epidemics. Ebola in Uganda in 2019. Monkeypox in eastern Nigeria. Others ...

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 ...

2002-08-17T23:01:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/bookTvA.jpgProfessor Fenn talked about her latest book, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 ...

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 ...

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 ...