Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Investment in global health research, prevention and preparedness has not kept pace with an increasing frequency and intensity of ...

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of disease, the reach of ...

Fear tends to travel faster than facts, especially when a rare virus suddenly makes global headlines. That is exactly what happened after a deadly hantavirus cluster tied to cruise-ship travel pushed ...

Polymarket users are betting on whether Hantavirus could become a 2026 pandemic following outbreak reports and growing online speculation. A cruise ship hantavirus outbreak has caused international ...

A deadly respiratory viral outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has spurred fears about another pandemic. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Hantavirus, a rare but deadly virus carried by rodents, has killed three people and infected at least eight amid an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship, prompting concerns about a possible pandemic and ...

The latest case of a Canadian passenger testing positive shows the hantavirus outbreak isn’t over yet. We can probably expect more cases, given the long incubation period of this infection. More than ...

A Perspective review in npj Science of Food argues that pandemics can weaken food safety systems even when the pathogen is ...

The world is more at risk of a pandemic and less safe from deadly viral outbreaks now than it was before COVID, a major pandemic preparedness report found. “The evidence is clear: health, economic, ...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) stands as the fastest-spreading and most extensive global health crisis that humanity has faced in a century ...