What is Disease X? WHO warns it could trigger the next pandemic as scientists study unknown pathogens to help governments prepare.

A single London borough has had 80 cases of a ‘fast-spreading’ measles outbreak in less than three months. Measles is a highly contagious disease that notoriously causes a red rash behind the ears or ...

As WCNC's Bria Smith explains, March 11, 2020 is when the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic.

It was on March 11, 2020, that WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Explore India’s timeline, cases, lockdowns, waves, ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Transmission electron micrograph showing hepatitis B virus particles (colored orange). The Johns Hopkins Medicine-led ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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What does it mean for Illinois residents that the U.S. has left the WHO but the state has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network? The United States withdrew from the World Health ...

The White House may have pulled the plug on U.S. participation in the World Health Organization, but that doesn’t mean that Americans have to. The Illinois Department of Public Health sidestepped the ...