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 ...

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 ...

It's funny how a truly sucky year can make you realize how much we take for granted. 2020 really took the cake as the toughest year many of us have ever seen. It threw everything at us: deadly ...

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 ...