Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 was one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human history. Spreading rapidly across ...

How a country controls measles can be viewed as a proxy for how well it would control many other diseases. That’s because the steps for stopping the spread are the same: deployi ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This is a landmark event. As an epidemiologist listening to the steady stream of conversation around the coronavirus, I’m hearing ...

This symposium, bringing together experts from around the world, will explore current and needed methods to assess and priortize capabilities for prevention, detection, and response to infectious ...

More deadly pandemics are in store for the U.S. - and experts are sounding the alarms. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and the head of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public ...

As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told Newsweek the virus could become a pandemic--depending on what happens next. Right now, California is the epicenter of the outbreak, with ...

MRIGlobal wins a contract potentially worth $148 million from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MRIGlobal wins a contract to develop new tools or leverage existing ones into a ...