Many Countries Eliminated Measles. Why Is It Coming Back in the U.S. and Globally? The United States declared victory in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month, for the first time in two decades, a 6-year-old child in the U.S. died due to measles. Just a few weeks later, a ...

While the world is still trying to catch its breath from the aftermath of COVID-19, a new virus is quietly gaining prominence in the headlines—H5N1 avian flu, or bird flu. The recent upsurge of this ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to an ...

Pandemic and epidemic intelligence integrates surveillance data with contextual knowledge to assess health risks and inform public health decisions. Although investments in surveillance and public ...

A Cambridge-based program is tackling the growing threat of engineered pandemics, seeking to prevent bioweapon-driven outbreaks before they begin. Reading time 2 minutes Half a decade after the ...

What if scientists could anticipate the likelihood of an outbreak before it starts? What if, instead of scrambling to contain an emerging threat, we could prevent it? In the last year, waves of ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...

Early into what would later be described as a COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), a small island in ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...