The fifth anniversary of COVID-19 is approaching. With a possible bird flu pandemic looming and a mysterious deadly outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we should quickly learn the ...

In the late winter and early spring of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic grew from a geographically limited viral infection into a full-blown national emergency, disrupting life as we knew it. The ...

With the latest hantavirus outbreak that occurred aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship in 2026, many people are understandably ...

During the fall of 2019, in a lab in Wuhan, China, a cluster of atoms weighing less than one-trillionth of a gram mutated ever so slightly, cascading into the greatest disruption to human life in over ...

International travel volumes have now fully recovered from the downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the upcoming World Cup poised to drive a surge in Canadian tourism, recent hantavirus and ...

Australian public health authorities have been urged to prepare for a possible increase in severe COVID-19 cases during the local bushfire season, following a QUT-led study that suggests there was a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided researchers with a wealth of information on contemporary successes and failures in combating an emerging pathogen. This study outlines a total of 22 opportunities ...

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, ...

Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under international law at the time, declaring the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease ...

Outbreaks of the Ebola virus and Andes hantavirus are putting a renewed focus on the insurance implications of rare communicable disease spreads and the need for proactive risk management, according ...