Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds ...

"Since its identification in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, making it one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history," says Dr. Richard Doyle, a practicing ...

Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France ...

Wherever it began, the pandemic lasted just 15 months but was the deadliest disease outbreak in human history, killing between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, according to the most ...

They are maps, diaries, history books and medical records of our ... This week they explore how sex and disease over the past few thousand years has left indelible marks on our DNA.

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds ...