In the winter of 1906, Mrs. George Thompson called upon Dr. George Soper, known around New York as an “epidemic fighter,” to investigate the source of a typhoid outbreak that had occurred among ...

Mohsen Baqery is a Staff Writer at GameRant based in Turkey. He mainly covers video game news and industry features while occasionally publishing guides and listicles. Mohsen started his journey into ...

There's a pandemic-related tension in this country between our personal choices and the public good. NPR's podcast Throughline has been looking at a time in history when the same thing was happening.

Last week, DNA sleuthing disproved a widely held belief about the HIV/AIDS epidemic: that one person single-handedly brought the illness across the Atlantic to North America. That man, a gay flight ...

When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn’t be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois’ Manteno State Mental Hospital for some ...

TODAY marks 110 years since a New York sanitation officer identified the source of a Typhoid outbreak as Mary Mallon, who became known as Typhoid Mary. But he was not a pervert. George Soper was an ...

Gregory Mysogland is a freelance writer living in New York City. He is a passionate, lifelong fan of film and television and currently works as a Senior Movie and Television Features Writer for ...

Behind the fear-inducing nickname "Typhoid Mary" is Mary Mallon, a real woman trapped in a terrible situation that she barely understood. Here's what you don't know about her, and why her struggle was ...