Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

Ellie Donovan is retiring from Plimoth Patuxet Museum after 33 years, the last 16 as executive director. Tom Begley, the museum’s former deputy director of research and public engagement ...

What is less well-known is the fact that this group of settlers was able to take over a village that had previously been inhabited by a group of Patuxet ... off in a massive pandemic a few years ...