An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species. Humans could be next.
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It felt like watching one of those blockbusters about the end of the world. Like witnessing an apocalypse, but in real life.
It felt like watching one of those blockbusters about the end of the world. Like witnessing an apocalypse, but in real life.
Dead seal pups are spread out on a beach in Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, after adults abandoned the breeding area.
It felt like watching one of those blockbusters about the end of the world. Like witnessing an apocalypse, but in real life.
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An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic amongst animals — has struck some 320 hen and mammal species, together with elephant seals.
An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including elephant seals.
In the aftermath of an infectious disease outbreak, scientists often become detectives on the hunt for a culprit — and it’s not…
Jeremiah Ariaz was looking for signs of democracy Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, photographer Jeremiah Ariaz…
A highly contagious and deadly form of avian influenza has been barreling across the eastern half of the United States in…
How Human Folly Fuels Pandemics Viruses are the ultimate freeloaders. The best among them — influenza, smallpox and SARS-CoV-2 …
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As in previous pandemics, a rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic language has returned amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Many news outlets have recently begun softening their original assessment of the Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy (and others are jump…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can…
Now that unmasking time is here, perhaps it’s time to explore the origin of COVID-19.
Now that unmasking time is here, perhaps it’s time to explore the origin of COVID-19.
The great Alaska earthquake lasted four minutes and 38 seconds when it struck on March 27, 1964.
(Note: this is an excerpt, written in April, from When China Sneezes: from the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Econom…
Det var en vårdag 29. mai 1918 at Friedrich Trump gikk ned gaten i New York med sin 13 år gamle sønn Fred.
A s we all continue to grapple with the disruptive reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, most people are focused on the present and…
Frank Strong, chancellor of the University of Kansas, made a simple, but official, statement proclaiming the university closed.
— Six months into the global COVID-19 outbreak, a study has come out documenting a relatively new strain of the H1N1 swine flu…
— Six months into the global COVID-19 outbreak, a study has come out documenting a relatively new strain of the H1N1 swine flu…
On December 27, a man living in the northern suburbs of Paris showed up to the emergency room with a fever, chest pain, and…
New evidence is emerging that cases of the coronavirus may have spread to France, Florida, and New York as early as December…
New evidence is emerging that cases of the coronavirus may have spread to France, Florida, and New York as early as December…
Business Insider New evidence is emerging that cases of the coronavirus may have spread to France, Florida, and New York as…
Women wearing masks hold stretchers near ambulances during the Spanish Flu pandemic in St.
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ince at least the time of ancient Greece and Rome, massive outbreaks of disease have repeatedly ravaged…
In pandemics, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. Throughout history, every outbreak—from the smallpox that claimed…
Ap Top News, Understanding The Outbreak In 1918, no one had a vaccine, treatment or cure for the great flu pandemic as it…
Indeed, if there is one thing that can make a virus more contagious, it is civil war.
There’s bad uses of history, and then there’s Max Boot’s uncommonly silly Washington Post column on Sunday defending the…
The way global leaders often successfully trick us is by telling us they hate what they eventually embrace.
People covering their faces with masks. Cities opening makeshift hospitals. Society thrown into upheaval by a mysterious new…
Вчера TUT.BY сообщил, что в Беларуси для лечения пациентов с коронавирусом ищут доноров плазмы — тех, кто перенес COVID-19 и вызд…
For the past decade, the United States and much of the Western world has seen a dramatic increase in right-wing populism.
In happier times. Photo: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via An awful lot of world history — especially the parts in which diseases spread…
Key point: The Spanish flu killed more people than World War I did and was terrifying.
When conservative figures continually refer to the “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus,” it’s clear they’re doing it to make…
Up until World War I, the ravages of disease in wartime regularly claimed far more lives than bullets, bayonets and cavalry…
For many of us, the flu is a seasonal nuisance that emerges each year as the days grow shorter and people huddle indoors …
One hundred years ago this week, a note appeared in the national weekly Public Health Reports about the spread of influenza in…
+ mer + mer Dette er fortellingen om en av de grusomste epidemien i menneskets historie og en ung mann fra Rana i Nordland.
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly…
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Neither…
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly…
The 1918 flu pandemic gets all the headlines, but the malady is thought to have first appeared in the 16th century—and possibly…
[Observer]The Ebola Coordinator of the European Union (EU), Mr. Christos Stylianides, has warned Liberia and its neighbors, who…
(Source: Eagle County, CO) Public Health Contact Us Phone: 970-328-8840 Avon 100 W. Beaver Creek Blvd. 107 P.O. Box 3419 Avon…
AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry's office says he's cutting short a business trip to Europe and will return Thursday because...
[FrontPageAfrica]Washington -In the wake of a "late, inadequate and slow" global response to the Ebola outbreak, World Bank…
Blame Hollywood, the media, and even history teachers for perpetuating certain totally ridiculous or unfounded "facts" about…