The biography of Penangite medical hero Dr Wu Lien-Teh, who invented the medical face mask believed to be the precursor of ...

In some experimental models, LcrV-specific antibodies suffice to protect against pneumonic plague, apparently by promoting phagocytosis and helping phagocytes survive Y. pestis encounters.

IPOH: He invented the face mask which saved countless lives and now his descendants, who know little about his later years, ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...

While I was born more than a decade after The Sound of Music hit theaters in 1965, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ...

The Great War exacted a toll in every corner of the country. It was as if a giant wrecking ball had struck the nation.

I can sing all of those words in that order, but no pneumonic device in this world is good enough to make the right note come out of my mouth. When you think of The Sound of Music, you think of ...

Jack Palance makes a spectacular film debut as a truly dangerous killer who doesn’t know he’s infected with pneumonic plague. Richard Widmark, in one of his best performances, plays the ...

"Pneumonic tularemia was also common and was often initially mistaken for pneumonia caused by other bacteria or even cancer. Tularemia was common in all age groups among both men and women ...

Researcher Bacon had been a victim of pneumonic plague, aform of the fiercely contagious Black Death that ravaged Europe in theMiddle Ages, slaughtering millions and depopulating whole cities.