Here's what to know about the cruise-ship outbreak of Andes virus, a type of hantavirus that can spread person to person.

The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...

The outbreak began in early April on a cruise ship. Now health authorities around the world are working to contain it. Here's ...

Once used for tracking COVID-19 cases, the tracker has become a resource for virus trends in general, including measles Originally launched to track major pandemic outbreaks in the US and around the ...

Closing businesses and schools. Isolating and quarantining individuals. Banning public gatherings. Requiring masks. These were all highly effective public health measures enacted in a time of a global ...

What if scientists could anticipate the likelihood of an outbreak before it starts? What if, instead of scrambling to contain an emerging threat, we could prevent it? In the last year, waves of ...

Disease outbreaks can make women and girls especially vulnerable to violence, but health surveillance systems do a poor job ...

Pandemic and epidemic intelligence integrates surveillance data with contextual knowledge to assess health risks and inform public health decisions. Although investments in surveillance and public ...

Violence against women and girls may increase during infectious disease outbreaks—as economic strain, isolation and disrupted ...

Six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, here’s a snapshot of preparedness at a time of global health funding cuts, policy shifts and the continued spread of misinformation. Medical workers ...

Story Dominique Mosbergen On a Friday morning in October, about 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were assigned specific roles and given ...