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It begins with a cough, a sneeze, a fever. To us, it’s a nuisance, a few days in bed. But to the microscopic world, these are the sounds of an ancient battleground, a constant evolutionary arms race playing out in the wings of birds, and sometimes, alarmingly, in the lungs of humans. Avian influenza, or … Read more
The year is 1918. The world is weary, battered by the Great War. Soldiers, already weakened by the trenches and the grim realities of combat, begin to fall ill with a new, terrifying enemy. This wasn’t a foe of steel and gunpowder, but an invisible adversary that moved with chilling speed and stealth: the H1N1 … Read more
Consider the following scenario: Europe, Asia, and North Africa in the mid-14th century. Life, though often harsh, had a rhythm. Then, a shadow fell. Not a shadow of war or famine, but something far more insidious, something that arrived on the silent wings of fleas and rats. This was the dawn of the Black Death, … Read more