Last Friday, the Missouri health department announced a recent human case of bird flu. What’s unsettling about the case is that the patient — hospitalized on August 22 and later released — is the first among 15 people infected in the US who didn’t report having contact with animals. That raises the possibility that the […]
Gino Gallucci/Shutterstock When the city of London faced the bubonic plague in 1665, many people desperately sought a way to protect themselves and their loved…