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 ...

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, 25 heads of government issued an extraordinary call for a new international treaty for preventing, preparing for, and responding to pandemics. For two years, ...

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 ...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on countries to sign on to the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for "Disease X." ...

The World Health Organization and global leaders have acknowledged the need for improvement in pandemic responses. Efforts are underway to finalize a pandemic treaty to establish guidelines for future ...

Global preparedness for the next pandemic is being hampered in part by unequal distribution of research and development efforts among low-, middle- and high-income countries, a new report from the ...

GENEVA (AP) — After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in ...

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 ...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Record levels of government debt, geopolitical tensions that threaten to split the global trading system, and the likely persistence of weak productivity ...

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

The global coronavirus pandemic, when it arrived in our lives five years ago this week, affected the world of music in basically the same way it did everything else. Musicians froze their lives and ...

At the height of the COVID pandemic in March of 2021, 25 heads of government and international agencies issued an extraordinary joint call for a “new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and ...