Black Death

Second death linked with bubonic plague recorded in a village in Inner Mongolia

Nine close contacts of the victim along with 26 secondary contacts have been quarantined and their tests have come out negative.

Case of bubonic plague detected in Mongolia: All you need to know about the Black Death

WHO has said that it doesn't consider the outbreak high-risk, but that they are monitoring the situation carefully.

From medieval Black Death, a warning: Pandemics can unleash the ugliest in human nature

The Europe of the Renaissance, founded on reason and scepticism of religious belief, was in many ways birthed by the Black Death. But the murderous impulses that marked its course — genocide, the brutal suppression of heresy, the insistence that disease is divine retribution — are still with us.

Amid economic slowdown caused by coronavirus, a look at lessons history offers about governance during pandemics

As concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus have translated into an economic slowdown, a look back at history can help us consider the economic effects of public health emergencies and how best to manage them.

From The Wicker Man to Midsommar: Tracing the folk horror tradition and its recent renaissance in cinema

It is impossible to talk about Midsommar without discussing its precedents, which pioneered the rich traditions and iconography of folk horror.