pathogen

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By combining genetic, archaeological, environmental, and pathogen data, the study reveals how ancient communities dealt with overlapping challenges such as climate instability, food stress, and disease.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

A natural reservoir is an animal species that carries a pathogen without becoming sick.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

We now have a much clearer picture of how humanity’s successes—population growth, food production, urbanization, globalization—have stoked pathogen evolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

It does mean, though, that a human population as a whole becomes better protected against the pathogen.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond