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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comer’s panel oversaw the pandemic report that underpins the new ... “The Trump administration is rewriting some of history and making covid-19 out to be a political event rather than a ...

The pandemic of 1957-58 ultimately caused 1.1 million deaths worldwide, and it follows the 1918 crisis as the second-most severe influenza outbreak in U.S. history. Some 20 million Americans were ...

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 ...