It really is learning a new language. What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? An epidemic is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population ...

The World Health Organisation has not called the spread of the new coronavirus a pandemic yet, but it has declared that it is an epidemic, and a global health emergency. An example of an epidemic ...

As the coronavirus continues to dominate headlines and conversations around the world, many people are wondering how exactly we should define the outbreak: epidemic or pandemic? Last week ...

No longer considered a medical or political emergency, it has transitioned from a pandemic to an endemic disease—a ... Why, for example, did advice on mask-wearing change so often and vary ...

The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases ... MPXV was considered a zoonotic disease endemic in parts of central and west Africa. It was acquired mainly through ...

how the disease favored poor working people: “It was in the tiny mining villages—‘patches’—that the epidemic was felt immediately.” William Maxwell drew on his mother’s death ...

But, like the virus, we too – as societies – have changed since the start of the pandemic, which explains the medical and scientific discord we are experiencing. Why, for example, did advice ...