Pandemic
World dangerously unprepared for next pandemic: monitor
Gro Harlem Brundtland, GPMB co-chair and a former WHO chief, stressed during the virtual launch of the report Monday that the board had warned a year ago that...
A team of more than 40 international health experts assembled by the WHO are due to start working in south Africa soon where they'll be guiding government and professionals through the pandemic.
China's foreign ministry has downplayed concerns raised by a US science journal claiming a swine flu there has pandemic potential.
Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009, say the authors of the study.
What the consequences of school closures during Africa's 'longest, largest and deadliest' Ebola outbreak can teach the continent.
It's a matter of scale, writes Rebecca SB Fischer.
Cheryl Cohen, associate professor in epidemiology at Wits University, said the risks that could lead to the coronavirus being a pandemic included the number of people infected.