The World Health Organization on Monday raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico. The move from level three to level four on the WHO's ...

He is not alone. There has been a slow but steady uptick in COVID cases throughout the summer. It’s a time when people travel ...

The COVID pandemic has been over for a while now, leaving Canadian officials to wrestle with the cost of providing an expensive, but largely unwanted, vaccine to the public. Alberta’s come up with a ...

Gin has been hailed as a ‘healthier’ drink for your body than beer – but we’ve come a long way since the days when it might ...

The next pandemic disease outbreak is already on the way. Only its identity remains a surprise. Medical science is confident that the conditions for the worldwide spread of a novel, highly infectious ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the ...

In the 1950s and ‘60s Montana was among the leaders in the war against polio and nearly 4,000 Montana children participated in a 1954 field trial of the Salk polio ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the ...