The recent outbreak of the rare Andes hantavirus has once again drawn attention to terms that became widely familiar during the COVID‑19 pandemic: endemic, epidemic and pandemic. These concepts are ...

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

My book argues that epidemics are never simply medical occurrences. During the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians across the ...

A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity.

A Leicester charity which dates back before both world wars and the Spanish Flu is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Charity Link, located in the city's Millstone Lane, originally founded as the ...

When the last Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was declared over, I breathed a sigh of relief. As long as our neighbours aren’t being ravaged by one of the deadliest diseases ever known, we are safe. Yet ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax” — more like vaccine hesitant — and much of that resistance was rooted in ...

Sure, we've come a long way, but the fundamentals of cleaning and washing have remained more constant than you might think ...

Louisville’s Maricia Richardson grew up hearing that she didn’t need to get vaccinated. She didn’t consider herself “anti vax ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Some Americans seem to be extra-alarmed about Ebola and hantavirus in the wake of COVID-19. But public health experts say ...

The Dartmouth Review is a bi-weekly conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was founded in ...