Experts argue the hantavirus outbreak was quickly contained but revealed growing challenges in pandemic preparedness and ...

The question of when, not if, the world will face another global health crisis remains a top priority for scientists. In an ...

WHO member states kicked off another attempt at finalising the missing piece of the pandemic treaty on Monday, with the Ebola ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Investment in global health research, prevention and preparedness has not kept pace with an increasing frequency and intensity of ...

Nepal has culled 600,000 birds as H5N1 sweeps Kathmandu, closing the capital's only zoo and raising fears it could mutate to ...

What is urgently needed is a shift from pathogen-specific diagnostics toward pathogen-agnostic diagnostic systems,” write ...

The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and ...

While the world closely watched an outbreak of hantavirus unfold on a luxury cruise ship earlier this month, another deadly infectious disease was sweeping through one of Africa’s largest countries ...

Hantavirus, a rare but deadly virus carried by rodents, has killed three people and infected at least eight amid an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship, prompting concerns about a possible pandemic and ...

As Uganda battles an Ebola outbreak linked to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), TikTok videos claim President Yoweri Museveni announced nationwide school closures at the end of May.

In South Korea, coronavirus cases quadrupled over two days, as 144 members of a religious sect tested positive. In Singapore, clusters of infection have been traced to two churches, a hotel business ...