Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...

But to some, the coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of epidemics that have caused a panic in recent memory, including SARS, MERS, the Zika virus, and swine flu. So how exactly does the ...

In this issue, C&EN takes a look at how the pandemic changed science and scientists and how science will continue to work to ...

Masks were one of the most polarizing parts of the COVID pandemic. Five years later, have we moved closer to a compromise?

SARS showed how quickly infection can spread during its first reported outbreak in Asia in February 2003. Over the next few months, the illness reached more than two dozen countries in North ...

SARS-CoV emerged about two decades ago in China and spread rapidly to other countries. Fortunately, it was successfully contained and no new cases have been reported since the initial outbreak.

While public opinions of the CDC and the WHO shifted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, recent survey results indicate that ...

An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in Asia and Canada occurs in the spring. Officials credit the use of both isolation (for those sick with SARS) and quarantine (for those ...

The research firm said this week that the SARS outbreak is centered in key electronics production tracts in China, where investors from several countries--including Japan, Korea and Taiwan--have ...