Global surveillance systems are detecting changes in the influenza A(H3N2) virus that carry "pandemic potential" as cases ...

Precious Matsoso is part of Natur e’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Five years ago last week, the world shut down. The coronavirus that caused COVID-19 had first emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. By March 2020, it had become a global pandemic leading to mass ...

War or another global pandemic, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is cautioning that, if the world manages to avoid the former, the latter is a very real possibility within the next 25 years. "A lot of unrest" ...

Three years after news of the first cases of Covid-19 infections and deaths began to appear, the global response to pandemics remains in a sluggish, reactive mode, waiting until dire threats emerge ...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on countries to sign on to the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for "Disease X." ...

At the start of this month, it looked as though talks on a pandemic agreement — designed to prevent, prepare for and improve the world’s response to an event such as the global COVID-19 outbreak — ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2025 (ENS) – The first Pandemic Agreement in the world was today formally adopted by consensus as the Member States of the World Health Organization, WHO, voted during the ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The world is now simultaneously fighting ...

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Four years ago, Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. We look back at this milestone through the eyes of a man who was one of the first ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and ...