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 ...

Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

Long before COVID-19 swept over the globe, the Plague of Justinian gave rise to widespread upheaval as the opening chapter of the world's first plague pandemic. From 541 to 750 C.E., the bubonic ...

A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...

Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) (Getty) Health officials in Britain have published a first-of-its-kind ...

Public health researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health used computer modeling to reconstruct how the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in the U.S ...

For the first time — and despite fears that it might never happen — nations have agreed a series of measures to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics. The terms of the first global pandemic ...

The first mass grave of the Justinianic Plague in Jordan, reveal how the world’s first pandemic devastated an ancient city.