memory is of a headline. What followed was panic, disruption and mass death. Covid may feel as if it’s behind us. But we’re living in the branch of history it created. And its contours are only now ...

Osterholm has predicted that another global pandemic could occur in our lifetime, with this one being far more deadly than ...

It's been dubbed "the forgotten pandemic" — possibly because it coincided with some of the most momentous events in world history. But Dr John Gerrard argues variants of the H3N2 flu, which led to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics were decades apart but shared many lessons. Among the lessons for clinicians are ...

A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...

In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...

Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...

A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparedness. A woman wears an ...

A dismantled health infrastructure leaves the U.S. incredibly vulnerable, warns infectious-disease expert Michael Osterholm.

Scientists have solved a 1,500-year-old medical mystery—revealing the cause of the "Plague of Justinian" the outbreak that began the world's first known pandemic. Researchers found direct genomic ...