Health

Images of the effects of Thalidomide are firmly etched into the public consciousness. What was

Poliomyelitis is a peculiarly nasty, highly contagious disease of the central nervous system that all

Doctors first noticed something strange in the Japanese coastal town of Minimata towards the end

It goes by the name of ‘potcheen’ in Ireland, ‘hooch’ or ‘moonshine’ in North America

The ‘sleeping’ or ‘sleepy’ sickness that swept the world in the 1920s had nothing in

Despite its name, the flu pandemic of 1918 did not start in Spain. In fact

Fate played a cruel trick on the natives of Fiji. The islands emerged from appalling

The first documented account of cholera appears in an Indian medical report of 1563, but

Since the Black Death, London had suffered several outbreaks of plague and had established a

The New World that Columbus discovered in 1492 was rich in wonders but devoid of

In the centuries following the Black Death, bubonic plague reappeared spasmodically in Europe, gradually receding

Mid 14th century Europe was debilitated by years of war, the cruel winters of the

Although there is plenty of evidence that bubonic plague has been around for as long