Scientists discover new viruses every year. A catalogue of the riskiest ones could help us spot the next pandemic before it ...

Japan Virus News: Is Japan battling a new pandemic? After the deadly COVID-19 virus wreaked havoc globally for more than 5 years, Japan's health authorities have now declared a health emergency after ...

A new coronavirus has been found in Brazil that shares key features with the one that sparked the global Covid pandemic. Scientists in the US and Japan detected the strain after capturing bats living ...

Respiratory infections pose the greatest risk to UK health security over the next 5 years, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In its first Health Security Risk Assessment (HSRA), the ...

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 ...

If we’re lucky, it will be a while before a new pandemic arises to rival the death and disruption of Covid. But the hantavirus outbreak that began several weeks ago on a cruise ship traveling the ...

The idea was born over drinks at the Hard Rock Hotel in Davos Switzerland, on January 23, 2020. There was a new virus ringing alarm bells in China, but it hadn't yet become an international concern.

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Illnesses on a cruise ship aren't new. Reports come of people contracting the norovirus, also known endearingly as the vomiting bug, or perhaps colds and flu spread. But when a strain of hantavirus — ...

“The world needs a new pandemic playbook,” headlined City Journal on Nov. 13, because “the old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.” The author is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director ...