Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

The list of 24 pathogen families is the first to consider global health threats, as well as threats specific to the UK population ...

As the U.S. turns away from its role as a global health leader, we're increasing our risks from the next pandemic.

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that’s infecting people in ... acquired the virus through contact ...

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Health officials in Britain have published a list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to humans for the first time.

The UK Health Security Agency's new Priority Pathogens reference tool aims to support national funders of research and ...