The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

When the X user shared the post in June 2013, there was a fresh outbreak of MERS-coronavirus in Saudi Arabia.

Airport thermometers, health questionnaires and masked officials are back in parts of Asia as a deadly bat-borne virus revives memories of the early COVID-19 years. Governments are scrambling to ...

MPR News guest host Kelly Gordon talked with an infectious disease physician about how the COVID virus is changing, the latest testing guidelines, and how you can best protect yourself and others.

Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else ...