Global pandemic treaty negotiators are hashing out cooperation plans this week and considering rushing the process out of fear that the Trump administration would pull the U.S. out of negotiations.

The patchwork systems of global and domestic monitoring for the next infectious disease threat should be expanded, linked and better funded; and public and private health agencies must improve ...

The World Health Organization has sounded the alarm over a fast-changing influenza strain, warning that international monitoring networks are picking up viral mutations with "pandemic potential" as ...

The 12th round of negotiations towards a global accord on handling future pandemics ended Friday without a final agreement, with rich and poor nations still wrangling over how to make it work. Here is ...

Even experienced doctors could be fooled by this disease. A deadly hemorrhagic illness, it often looks like yellow fever, malaria, or typhoid. At first, an infected individual might feel weak, uneasy, ...

The two-year effort to produce a global pandemic treaty did not meet its deadline. On Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, announced that the ...

The World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health authorities track disease outbreaks worldwide and alert the public about emerging health ...

At the start of this month, it looked as though talks on a pandemic agreement — designed to prevent, prepare for and improve the world’s response to an event such as the global COVID-19 outbreak — ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in collaboration with the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab, will cohost a webinar, “Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and ...

Last week, negotiators met to discuss the latest draft of a ‘pandemic treaty’ — an agreement among countries worldwide about how to best respond to the next massive outbreak. One sticking point in the ...