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 ...

After battling the deadly COVID-19 virus for over 5 years, the world is now on the verge of witnessing the rise of another ...

The world is on the verge of Disease X pandemic outbreak. Yes, the sound of it may pass as the stuff that can only be found in science-fiction blockbuster movies or bestseller novels. It also has the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -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 ...

Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black ...

The Black Death may have killed up to 200 million people, nearly 50 percent of the world’s population, making it one of the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. Compared to the COVID-19 ...

People who don't trust scientists. Nations that don't trust each other. And a lab in a suitcase. These are some of the ways the world has changed – for worse and for better – in the wake of the ...

Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” You may remember that a pandemic began ...

Plague, and the infamous Black Death, spread quickly for centuries, killing millions. Plague still occurs but can be treated with antibiotics.

The World Bank Group has designed a fast-disbursing global financing mechanism to protect countries against deadly pandemics. The mechanism, called the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, will be ...

When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments ...