The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2025 (ENS) – The first Pandemic Agreement in the world was today formally adopted by consensus as the Member States of the World Health Organization, WHO, voted during the ...

During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of ...

It’s been more than five years since COVID-19 changed the world forever. Now, after multiple rounds of negotiations, extensions, and controversies, we finally have a solid plan for the next time a ...

Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with vaccine and global health expert Seth Berkley. Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast ...

Newly-released Jeffrey Epstein documents include a 2015 email from security analyst Walter Kemp discussing pandemic preparedness meetings and involving global bodies like the WHO ...

Viruses belonging to the Orthopoxvirus family could potentially take the place of smallpox and spark a new global outbreak. These include monkeypox, as well as lesser-known viruses such as cowpox, ...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and ...

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...