More than 7 million people have been confirmed to have died from Covid so far, a number that is both still rising and almost ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Have we learned anything? This post examines past pandemics and the crucial lessons we must apply to future outbreaks.

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 ...

More than half of those who died were over the age of 65. There was a second, much smaller outbreak of SARS in 2004, linked to a medical lab in China. It probably occurred as a result of direct ...