pandemics

Ebola is one of the world’s most terrifying illnesses. Whenever a case arises in the United States, typically stemming from international travel activities, we quickly move to trace, inform, and prevent. We do such things ...

The Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company, Novartis, has declared themselves officially out of the antibiotics game. By shutting down its antiviral and antibacterial research programs, the company will lay off 140 employees and “resist” anymore attempts to evolve a ...

San Diego County health officials have reportedly discovered cases of West Nile Virus in a number of mosquitos. While West Nile Virus typically only harms birds, it is possible that it can be transferred to ...

The United States government is seemingly taking no chances over the possibility of a biological warfare attack on U.S. soil. The FDA has just approved a drug that can be used to treat smallpox. Although ...

An Elmore County, Idaho has been diagnosed with the plague. Since 1992, there have been no reported human cases of the plague in Idaho. Idaho health officials are still unsure if the bacterial disease, or plague, ...

A rare disease has taken the lives of 14 people in India and health officials are now warning of the potential for a global epidemic. In the southwestern region of Kerala, the rarely experienced Nipah virus, which ...

Experts are concerned that if a 1918 flu pandemic were to happen in today’s modern world, it might kill more than 30 million people. Our modern world is, you know, ripe with airline travel, car travel, train ...