Researchers Test Soil From 17 Burial Sites; Say Roman and Medieval Periods Faced Worst Wave of Parasitic Worm Infections In ...

HEALTH experts this week urged the government to provide people with safe water and sanitation, as a critical intervention and long-term strategy to eradicate medieval diseases like cholera and polio.

The research identified several helminth species, indicating that poor sanitation was a persistent issue from the medieval to the early modern period. This long-term analysis is rare in ...

Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system. Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process ...