Tools like quarantine and isolation—which were key to controlling SARS—are unlikely stop spread of a virus that can transmit during the period from infection to symptoms, experts say.

To summarize, in this retrospective study, researchers used a global model based on data on COVID-19 vaccination coverage and SARS-CoV-2 infections in 152 countries to determine the effect of ...

Preliminary scientific report. Petrone, M. et al. (2022) "Insights into the limited global spread of the immune evasive SARS-CoV-2 variant Mu". medRxiv.

Over the past few days, scientists throughout the world have increasingly sounded the alarm over the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Identified as BA.2.86 ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread rapidly in 2002-2003, revealing just how vulnerable we might be to emerging diseases and how global transportation is critical to the spread of an ...

The World Health Organization has launched a warning about the rapid spread of the NB.1.8.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has been detected so far in at least 22 countries, including ...

In 2003, a coronavirus that killed one in every 10 people it infected emerged from China and spread through several countries. Then, within eight months of being detected, it seemingly vanished.

T he initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San ...

In the world of infectious diseases and global health, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. As we look to 2024, we can rest assured these issues will demand our attention.