SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to an ...

Do you know that during the Black Death, which was one of the worst pandemics in history, some people believed that the disease was caused by "bad air" or "miasma?" This belief led to the use of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — As communities around the world prepare for the possibility that the new coronavirus could reach pandemic levels, we wanted to look back at the human history of infectious ...

Just over a century ago, a virulent flu outbreak was wreaking havoc on the world. We know it now as the 1918 influenza pandemic, and its tremors were felt far and wide. By the end of its spread, tens ...

The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up, and he criticized governments that have failed to establish reliable contact tracing to stop the spread ...

COLONIE — The majority of New Yorkers, 62 percent, think the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to come while just 27 percent think the worst is behind us, according to a poll released Monday by ...