This conspires to heighten the risk of mutation that could lead to a pandemic. [ Bird flu: Why are outbreaks happening and should I be worried?Opens in new window ] Immunologist Prof Kingston ...

This comes as a surge in cases of the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China has raised fears of another pandemic similar to Covid, reports the Mirror US. It's been nearly half a decade ...

Jessica Farren, 38, a stay-at-home mom from North Attleborough, received COVID shots during the pandemic but regrets rolling up her sleeve. She doesn’t understand why she still caught COVID ...

The Cleveland Clinic reported it had twice as many patients as it had during the first peak of the pandemic. They were more sick than during any previous surge and a lower number of them had co ...

How would the world cope if another infectious disease with pandemic potential were to emerge, as COVID-19 did five years ago? The answer is, we simply don’t know. In some respects, there are ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the United States will withdraw from the intergovernmental process of negotiating a pandemic accord. In negotiations that ...

Five years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, experts worry the world has still not learnt its lessons, saying it is a question of when-not if-a deadly, new “Disease X” strikes. Scientific ...

Ford, 56, of Margaret Street, off Beverley Road, Hull, admitted being concerned in supplying heroin and cocaine and possessing £1,820 cash as criminal property on December 29, 2021. Julia Baggs ...

Yet the tumult reminds some college presidents of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The unpredictability and wide-reaching impact of COVID-19 sparked similar anxiety among some students ...

And now there are troubling signs that the United States might be closer to another pandemic, even as President Trump dismantles the country’s public health system. My colleague Apoorva ...