From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and ...

Rebecca Yarros spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and shared she knows the name of the next ...

Uganda Declared End of Ebola Outbreak After Swift ResponseUganda declared the end of its Ebola outbreak, less than three months after the virus was first confirmed in Kampala on 30 January 2025. The ...

David Quammen, who predicted COVID-19, warns that bird flu (H5N1) could mutate and spark a pandemic, urging preparedness ...

"The sequel is turning out to be even worse than we imagined. And we knew it would be bad based on the original." ...

Stephanie Armour was formerly a senior special writer for health policy at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered such topics as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and ...

Ben Lamm on his mammoth task of resurrecting extinct species, such as the dire wolf, woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger and the ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and nearly 50 years after the first outbreak involving its infamous cousin—the Ebola virus—questions still abound about the ...

The East African country had announced its latest outbreak on January 30 after the death of a male nurse who tested positive for the virus. Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country's ...

In February, Elon Musk said he had “accidentally canceled” an Ebola prevention grant, but restored it “immediately.” Now, the same Ebola prevention grant has been canceled again.