According to a 2022 World Bank estimate, preventing a pandemic would cost approximately US$11 billion per year, while ...

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

In previous years, the U.S. usually saw norovirus outbreaks increase around December. That marked the start of the season for ...

Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, in 2024 surpassed totals seen in recent years and marked the highest case count since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study shows how person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population.