"We didn't know what it was. We had never experienced an infectious disease of such intensity," former president Ellen ...

Monrovia — Former President Sirleaf launches a book on Liberia's fight against Ebola, as she reflects on resilience of the population here. The Ebola outbreak here left an enduring psychological ...

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

How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that ...

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 ...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives ...

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

The book then focuses on the 1989 emergence of Ebola in the Reston, Virginia, monkey colony, and the Army's attempts to identify and fight this most feared of "hot agents." Preston takes us inside ...

For David and Hannah Zitner, Concordia ignited a passion for curiosity, inquiry and empowering others. While their career ...

Elsewhere at the book festival, courtly former National Institutes ... Africa a decade ago and stopped the spread of the deadly Ebola virus before it could come to U.S. shores.