May 4, 2026
Essay
MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak: What We Know
A source-first guide to the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak, Andes virus, cruise-ship exposure, travel risk, and what investigators could know.
Topic hub
Pathogen Geography
Map-first work on how pathogens travel through ports, ships, animal reservoirs, water systems, roads, empires, and borders.
Essays
6 linked piece(s)
This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
January 31, 2026
Essay
Why Europeans Didn’t Die of New World Diseases
Why Old World pathogens devastated Indigenous Americans while New World diseases rarely reversed the catastrophe in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
January 11, 2026
Essay
Disease and Population Collapse After 1492
A careful look at disease, colonial disruption, Indigenous population collapse, Old World pathogens, and the limits of simple post-1492 stories.
January 3, 2026
Essay
Maritime Disease Ecology on Early Ships
Shipboard disease ecology before modern medicine: scurvy, infection, crowding, ports, naval history, and the epidemiology of life at sea.
December 17, 2025
Essay
Pre-Contact South American Disease Ecology
Part two of a pre-contact Americas disease ecology series, focused on South America, isolation, endemic infections, and ecological context.
December 10, 2025
Essay
Pre-Contact North and Central American Disease Ecology
Disease ecology in North and Central America before 1492, including isolation from Eurasian disease pools and Indigenous health context.