SCIENTISTS have raised “urgent concerns” over new viruses discovered in bats which have the potential to spill over into ...

COVID-19 may seem well and truly in the past, but another deadly pandemic is a question of "when," not "if." To help prevent ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists ...

Colorado has enhanced pandemic readiness with new public health technologies and staff following lessons from COVID-19.

By phasing out a committee that was a cornerstone of infection prevention in the U.S., the Trump administration is ...

Blog - The Mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox) continues to make an unsettling return across several communities in West and Central African countries, with Sierra Leone becoming the latest ...

The SARS outbreak in 2002–03 provided the push that WHO member states needed to revise the IHR substantially in 2005. 12 The epidemic of Ebola virus disease in west Africa from 2014 to 2016 led to the ...

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related ...

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are critical for preparedness and response against an outbreak or pandemic and have been highlighted in the 100 Days Mission, a global initiative that aims to prepare the ...

The two survivors try to support each other through the outbreak, where everyone around them is infected. In #Alive, a realistic view of a deadly outbreak in a metropolitan city is depicted, giving us ...

When does an epidemic officially become a pandemic? In 2009, a new kind of influenza A virus known as H1N1 emerged in an outbreak in the United States. It quickly spread, and was defined by the WHO as ...

An effective pandemic treaty would focus on China’s two core mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Beijing lied about the emerging outbreak and pressured the WHO to mute its response.