Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was ...

Reports of a cluster of severe pneumonia cases and deaths would be worrying, as would expanding quarantine measures and ...

Outbreaks cluster where people, livestock, and damaged ecosystems collide, a new Nature study finds.

The COVID pandemic was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, disagrees. He predicts either a major war or another pandemic ...

London, England, June 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global surge in infectious diseases as over 40 countries report outbreaks 10-fold over pre-pandemic levels New analysis by Airfinity and Bloomberg ...

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of disease, the reach of ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously unveiled this process through his theory of natural selection, revealing how ...

When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments were canceled and people were told to stay at home unless it was urgent. In ...

COVID-19 shut down the world, killed more than seven million people, and triggered a major economic recession. Many assumed the coronavirus pandemic’s destructive toll would spur global action to ...

Background Mortality from alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) in England rose after the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing reports ...

Turning from the past to the worrisome present, workshop participants representing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) discussed ...