Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole ...

Five years ago, the world faced perhaps the biggest test of its resilience since WWII. Billions of people were locked up for ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in ...

Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with ...

This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.” “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function ...

Most Americans blame a lab leak for the coronavirus pandemic, but it remains divisive in the intelligence community and is opposed by many virologists.

Wherever it began, the pandemic lasted just 15 months but was the deadliest disease outbreak in human history, killing between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, according to the most ...

Members of the World Health Organization reached a landmark agreement on Wednesday on how to learn from COVID-19, which killed millions of people in 2020-22, and prepare the world for future pandemics ...

After more than 3 years of intense negotiations, WHO member states have finally reached a consensus on a new treaty to ...

April 22: Gov. Phil Murphy reported 3,551 new cases of the coronavirus in New Jersey at the state's daily briefing, bringing ...

From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and pandemics have caused immense loss of life and societal upheaval. The article ...