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During the 1918 flu pandemic, a group of individuals lay together on beds in a vast room, seeking solace and care.

An enduring “fact” about the 1918 flu might be wrong

The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.

Black Death: The Upside to Killing Half of Europe

The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, wiped out 30 to 50 percent of Europe’s population between 1347 and 1351. But, this is just the most infamous of the little microbe’s shenanigans. Y. pestis, which is one-millionth our size, has caused three major pandemics and continues killing people to this very day. The plague gets such a bad rap because it represents some of the greatest tragedies to ever befall the human race.

SSA 2012 Conference Wrap-Up, Day 2

Read Part 1 here. On Saturday, the SSA conference was in full swing, with three simultaneous tracks of talks going on throughout the OSU student union. As Murphy’s Law predicts, […]