As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less ...

Geneva — The mpox outbreak is not another COVID-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it. While more research is needed ...

The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpassed 200,000 midday Sept. 22, around seven months after the first known U.S. death was recorded. The U.S. makes up 4 percent of the world’s population, but ...

Excess mortality was highest in 2021, with 10.4 million deaths, as more lethal variants emerged and health systems faced severe strain, before declining to 3.3 million deaths in 2023.

COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern ...

COVID-19 deaths in the United States were likely undercounted in official statistics during the first 30 months of the pandemic, according to a new scientific paper from a national team that includes ...

The Chinese growth engine seems to have stalled. What happened? Western economists tend to focus on the usual economic drivers, the indicators and trends that regularly factor into their models – ...