Few will forget the sense of global concern when, in 2003, a mysterious virus killed nearly 800 people. The SARS virus – a type of coronavirus that originated in rural China but spread to 37 countries – was...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed eight...
The recent infection of a patient in England with a SARS-like virus did not change the World Health Organization’s risk assessment of the novel coronavirus. The WHO said that the new case, however, does indicate that...
A third patient in Britain has contracted a new SARS-like virus, becoming the second confirmed British case in a week and showing the deadly infection is being spread from person to person, health officials said on...
Researchers are trying to develop new flu vaccines that may provide wider protection to people by including more of the virus strains in the vaccine, a US expert told Xinhua in an exclusive interview. The United States...
Scientists are learning more about superspreaders, people who transmit infections to a much greater than expected number of new hosts, including that they may be the driving force behind pandemics. During the 2003 SARS...
The new coronavirus – the subject of countless, often-panicky, news reports – now has a name. Researchers in England are calling it London1_novel CoV2012. But there’s not a lot else that can be said...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged health workers everywhere to report patients with acute respiratory infection who may have been in Saudi Arabia or Qatar, following the discovery of a new virus from the...
The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on a disease outbreak in Saudi Arabia caused by a virus in the same family as the one that caused SARS. There have been two confirmed infections with the new...