Once used for tracking COVID-19 cases, the tracker has become a resource for virus trends in general, including measles.

Before the COVID pandemic, several studies showed that rates of loneliness were stable in England, the U.S., Finland, Sweden ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how ill-prepared the world was to detect and respond to global health threats. With over 7·1 million lives lost,1 more than US$4·7 trillion in economic damage,2 profound ...

“An outbreak of this”, “epidemic of that”, “protect yourself against a potential pandemic of some horrible sounding disease”. In this article, we take a look at the terminology used by epidemiologists ...

The United States has rejected amendments adopted in 2024 by members of the World Health Organization to its legally binding ...

Gaps in the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic will handcuff responses to future epidemics and pandemics. Solutions exist for them.

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

The nomenclature dictating what is a pandemic, what is an epidemic, and whether the spread of avian flu meets the criteria for the label of a pandemic can be confusing, to be sure.

Simulations that help determine how a large-scale pandemic will spread can take weeks or even months to run. A recent study in PLOS Computational Biology offers a new approach to epidemic modeling ...

The science of viruses, born out of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic, launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction, saving countless lives in the decades to come.

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

Epidemic waves serve not just to predict but also to persuade. Their special blend of mathematical and moral messaging will shape the future of the pandemic.