As British scholar Richard Evans researched the history of pandemics for a book more than 30 years ago, he was struck by the uniformity of how governments from different cultures and different ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

Hospitals unable to keep pace with the volume of new patients. Political leaders taking to their beds. The morgues overflowing. This isn’t Milan, London or New York during the 2020 coronavirus crisis.