Plague

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.

Follies of the madmen: What's the suicidal thinking that prompted religious gatherings during a pandemic?

India is grappling with the fallout of the neo-fundamentalist Tablighi Jamaat’s decision to hold a giant public gathering despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus Outbreak: From hunting bats to tearing into live chicken for pious reasons, Indians aren’t exactly new to animal pathogens

Even as India battles the Wuhan virus, it’s time to introspect on the path ahead: what happened there could happen here, too.

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.

IPL 2020: Organising T20 League during coronavirus pandemic is disaster waiting to happen

The staging of the IPL is a logistics nightmare at the best of times and now in times of a coronavirus pandemic, it could be a disaster waiting to happen