Airport thermometers, health questionnaires and masked officials are back in parts of Asia as a deadly bat-borne virus revives memories of the early COVID-19 years. Governments are scrambling to ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Nepal, March 5 -- 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome-1 (SARS-CoV-1) first emerged in China, it triggered a global alert, including in Nepal. I was then working as a junior medical officer, ...

Fact Check - Pandemic simulations are conducted for preparedness, not as a blueprint for engineering a new global crisis.

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

A leading infectious disease expert says authorities are "keeping a close eye on what's happening overseas", after a woman died in Bangladesh from Nipah virus late last month. UNSW's Professor Raina ...

Each infected person generally infects fewer than one other person, which limits the spread but does not prevent outbreaks. But when this disease strikes, it is often fatal. And the WHO considers ...

The Ministry of Health informed that the Nipah virus has an incubation period of four to 14 days, during which symptoms may develop after exposure. The ...