In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.

A mysterious kidney disease is striking down laborers across the world and climate change is making it worse. Meet the doctors who are trying to stop it.

With warnings that a shortage of the vaccine against the virus could spur on a new epidemic, yellow fever is again in the scientific spotlight.

The 15th and 16th epidemics of English sweating sIckness still fascinate historians and epidemiologists. 

Research suggests that certain things such as alcohol and the potency of the dose increase the rate at which users die from heroin use.