In the mid-1800s, physicians gathered around a man who was being treated for cholera in the city of Puducherry on the southeastern coast of India. At the time, no one understood it was a bacterial ...

These days, cholera is largely an African disease, with over 95 percent of all cases worldwide over the past two decades occurring in Africa. In his informative history of the seven cholera pandemics ...

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Nova Scotia has a long history of using quarantines to protect itself from infectious diseases, but it was a lack of quarantine that inadvertently led to a health disaster and the founding of Halifax.

AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: We've talked a lot on this program about the dangers of conspiracy theories and political resistance to the public health guidance on COVID-19. DAVID ROSNER: This goes back to ...