Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, ...
The fifth anniversary of COVID-19 is approaching. With a possible bird flu pandemic looming and a mysterious deadly outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we should quickly learn the ...
During the fall of 2019, in a lab in Wuhan, China, a cluster of atoms weighing less than one-trillionth of a gram mutated ever so slightly, cascading into the greatest disruption to human life in over ...
"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the ...
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Outbreaks of the Ebola virus and Andes hantavirus are putting a renewed focus on the insurance implications of rare communicable disease spreads and the need for ...
With the latest hantavirus outbreak that occurred aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship in 2026, many people are understandably concerned after living through the recent COVID-19 pandemic. However, the ...
Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War ...
International travel volumes have now fully recovered from the downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the upcoming World Cup poised to drive a surge in Canadian tourism, recent hantavirus and ...