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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 ...

With the latest hantavirus outbreak that occurred aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship in 2026, many people are understandably concerned after living through the recent COVID-19 pandemic. However, the ...

Yearly Covid-19 Booster Recommendations in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Although the rapid development of multiple Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 represents a major scientific, medical, and regulatory ...

Lesson 5: Missteps fueled distrust in science, medicine The biggest fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, in Bagdasarian's view, is the pervasive distrust that has grown like a cancer through American ...

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public health experts say that, despite some gains, the United States is not fully prepared for another public health ...

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 ...