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What is an outbreak, epidemic or pandemic? Ebola and public health emergencies explained

Terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and public health emergency each describe a different level of spread,  and they help determine how fast and how far the response goes.

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts

Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases, ex...

Are We Pandemic Ready?

Hantavirus and Ebola are reminders that outbreaks are inevitable, and that the world must work together to contain them and prevent the next pandemic.

The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Much Less Familiar to Science

The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.

How outbreaks at sea have been helping to shape the global health system since medieval times

Outbreaks at sea are one of the oldest problems in public health. From medieval plague quarantines to modern times, they have repeatedly tested the ability to control infectious di...

Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our 'dangerous' times — WHO

GENEVA, Switzerland — The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are only the latest crises in “dangerous and divisive” times, the World Health Organization chief said Monday. Openi...

Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the...

Africa CDC Flags Cross-Border Spread of Mpox, Cholera

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has raised alarm over changing patterns of infectious disease outbreaks across the continent, warning that transm...

“A Plague Is Upon Us”: The Mass Death That Changed an Ancient City Forever

Evidence from Jerash shows the Justinian plague reshaped communities, exposing hidden migration patterns and the human impact of pandemic crises. “A plague is upon us” was likely a...

Ebola virus: Big deal, little deal, or no deal?

I recently devoted a post to mocking the media storm around hantavirus. As I assured y'all, it is fading away without further consequence. That does not mean, however, that we shou...

Silent spread of rare and deadly Ebola strain exposes surveillance gaps

A rare Ebola outbreak that may have circulated undetected in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo for several weeks has exposed the difficulty of detecting deadly viruses in r...

Officials scramble with emergency contact tracing to stop Hantavirus from spreading

According to a report from the World Health Organization, health authorities have initiated international contact tracing efforts to contain a cluster of hantavirus infections tied...

Ebola, hantavirus show world's risk preparedness lagging: Expert

The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks show that while the response to declared public health crises has improved, awareness of pandemic risks still lags, a leading pandemic exp...

Growing health crisis crosses borders as cases surge, global response intensifies

A growing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus has infected at least 134 people and killed 18 across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to the Worl...

The WHO Warns That The Ebola Virus Is Spreading Fast & Wide

Over the past few weeks, the general public was getting nervous when word about the Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship began to make headlines. But it seems like the actual threa...

Ebola Outbreaks in Africa Trigger Global Health Emergency, U.S. Travel Warnings

MONDAY, May 18, 2026 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) an international public health emergency. The de...

Quarantine sentences to ponder, that was then this is now edition…

Trump administration officials, confronted by overlapping outbreaks of Ebola and the hantavirus, have taken a more aggressive approach to locking down potentially exposed people th...

Epic rolls out health alerts to flag rising rates of illness at the county level

Electronic health record giant Epic debuted a new feature that monitors county-level health trends and issues alerts when elevated rates of illness are detected.

WHO annual meet starts amid Ebola, hantavirus outbreaks

Εμπολα: Παγκόσμιος συναγερμός για τη ραγδαία εξάπλωση του ιού

Αντιμέτωπος με ένα σπάνιο στέλεχος του Έμπολα βρίσκεται ο πλανήτης μετά την έκρηξη κρουσμάτων στην Αφρική, με τον ΠΟΥ να προειδοποιεί ότι το πραγματικό μέγεθος της επιδημίας παραμέ...

Bacterial STIs Hit Record Levels in Europe as Congenital Syphilis Cases Nearly Double

A Stark Surge in Sexually Transmitted Infections Floods Europe: Confronting a Decade of Neglected Epidemics Across the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA), 2024 has...

Africa CDC raises alarm as mpox, cholera spread across borders

“The transmission is increasingly being driven by a few member states, but what is more concerning is the cross-border movement of cases, especially from high-burden areas,” he sai...

From Black Death to Covid, ships have long hosted outbreaks

A deadly outbreak on a cruise liner is just the latest in a long history of infectious diseases spreading rapidly in the cramped confines of ships, from the Black Death to Covid.Pe...

ΠΟΥ: Πολύ υψηλός ο επιδημιολογικός κίνδυνος από την έξαρση του Εμπολα στο Κονγκό

Ο επιδημιολογικός κίνδυνος από την έξαρση του ιού του Εμπολα στη Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία του Κονγκό κρίνεται πλέον «πολύ υψηλός» για τη δημόσια υγεία σε εθνικό επίπεδο, από «υψηλός» που ή...