In 2026, Oropouche outbreaks will likely continue to affect travelers in the Americas. The biting midge that carries ...

Study findings explain why pandemics spread faster than detection efforts, based on U.S. data from H1N1 and COVID-19.

On the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a public health emergency of international concern, we face growing risks of even worse pandemics. But the world is not ready to respond. Leaders ...

In a recent review published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, a group of authors prioritized the primary prevention of pathogen spillover, integrated a One Health approach, and harnessed global ...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of diseases that could cause the next pandemic includes the ominous “Disease X.” The pathogen “Disease X” is a new disease agent unknown to medical science ...

Large numbers of human infectious diseases have a zoonotic origin, meaning that many disease-causing pathogens were originally transmitted from non-human animals to humans. This process can have ...

For many of us, the start of the 2020s was something we’d much rather forget. The COVID-19 pandemic had wide-ranging, devastating impacts, from the millions of lives lost around the globe, to the ...

In 1918, the world was struck by the Great Influenza, which killed between 25 and 100 million people over three years. The pandemic took people in the prime of their lives, with most victims between ...

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a cross-sectional study to assess whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the incidence of any ...