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 ...

The new book "The Big One" describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the ...

The coronavirus crisis may not be a natural disaster in the traditional sense, but the pandemic's impact on society shares similar characteristics to things like earthquakes or wildfires. California ...

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 ...

Scientists have solved a 1,500-year-old medical mystery—revealing the cause of the "Plague of Justinian" the outbreak that began the world's first known pandemic. Researchers found direct genomic ...

Closing businesses and schools. Isolating and quarantining individuals. Banning public gatherings. Requiring masks. These were all highly effective public health measures enacted in a time of a global ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Economic pressures from steep new U.S. tariffs will push global public debt above pandemic-era levels to nearly 100% of global GDP by the end of the decade as slower growth and ...