The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

At top AI labs, the future looks either fantastically bright—or terrifyingly dark. More in today’s TIME tech newsletter.

AI may make human-caused pandemics 5× more likely than last year, experts warn in a study shared exclusively with TIME.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed millions worldwide and hundreds of thousands in the United States. This paper studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a ...

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related ...

5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918 A century ago, the influenza pandemic killed about 50 million people. Today we are battling the coronavirus pandemic.

The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...