In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have traced the deadly bacterium behind the world’s earliest recorded pandemic to its epicentre for the first time. The Justinian Plague, which devastated ...

The find definitively links the pathogen to the Justinian Plague marking the first pandemic (AD 541–750), resolving one of history's long-standing mysteries. For centuries, historians have deliberated ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...

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 ...

The world changed six years ago this month. What began as a cluster of pneumonia cases overseas became a global pandemic that took Hoosiers’ lives, upended daily routines, overwhelmed hospitals, ...

In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Geneva, countries finalized a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics, marking a historic step that ...