"Disease X is the name given to an as-yet-unknown bug, that has the potential to cause large outbreaks or even a pandemic," Dr. Head ... "Vaccination is the best defence against whooping cough ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Already notorious diseases like Zika ... evolution in the thinking of the scientific community about how best to prepare for ...

Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, and the virus that causes the disease — SARS-CoV-2 — continues evolving and infecting ...

It has since spread across the world and the World Health Organisation has declared a global pandemic. Seeking to distinguish the virus from the disease it causes, the virus has been named SARS ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns about another pandemic. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in that it ...

Are we more prepared to detect the start of a possible pandemic than we were in 2020? Some things have gotten better, and some worse.

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago underscored the importance of diagnostic and vaccine developers to treat and prevent infectious diseases. Infectious disease is a theme for the ...

Checking wastewater and more: These kinds of advances in disease surveillance are happening all over the world. Dr. Paul Friedrichs, who ran the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and ...