pandemic

With countries struggling to bring the chikungunya virus under control, is the world prepared for another pandemic? A surge in chikungunya cases has hit southern China, fuelled by climate change, urbanisation and …

The National Grid gas company must pay a total of $3.1 million to two ex-workers with health issues for rejecting their requests to continue working from home after the pandemic, …

ADVERTISEMENT One in 15 children in Europe has been a victim of rape or sexual assault, according to a Childlight study on 33 European countries. Some 4.7% report experiencing rape …

Health officials have begun rolling out mass vaccines to combat an Ebola ‘crisis’ that has sparked pandemic fears.   The World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday that vaccination in the Kasai …

Washington says amendments to global health regulations risk interfering in US ‘sovereign right to make health policy’. Washington, DC – The United States has withdrawn from reforms introduced by the …

Russia’s top virologist says the spread of H5N1 bird flu among felines could spark a deadly outbreak in humans The head of Gamaleya Research Institute, Alexander Gintsburg, has warned that …

ADVERTISEMENT Massive budget cuts and an agreement to combat COVID-level health threats will be at the forefront of minds this week in Geneva as representatives from nearly every country on …

Five years on, New York City office building foot traffic has all but recovered from the “work from home” losses caused by the pandemic — and here’s the proof. Visits to …

ADVERTISEMENT A string of false and misleading online claims have emerged about the pandemic treaty, a landmark agreement which has just been agreed by more than 190 members of the …

Science writer David Quammen has long been credited with predicting the Covid-19 outbreak seven years before the pandemic swept the globe. After interviewing renowned virology and epidemiology experts, he published …