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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.

New viral outbreaks challenge scientists as unfamiliar strains emerge

Last month, a pair of viruses seized the headlines. First came a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, which caused as many as 13 infections, three of which were fatal. Then an...

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.

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...

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Pestilence on the Rise: Another Sign of the Times?

Pestilence on the Rise: Another Sign of the Times? A growing outbreak of cyclosporiasis has now spread to more than half of the United States, with confirmed cases reported in 31 s...

Endemic vs. epidemic: what is the difference?

Endemic means regularly present in a place or group. Epidemic means a disease spreads quickly through many people at once.

Diseases in D&D | Plagues, Poxes, and Pestilence | Wandering DMs S08 E19

A new episode has been added to the database: Diseases in D&D | Plagues, Poxes, and Pestilence | Wandering DMs S08 E19

Amid Ebola, Hantavirus Outbreaks, Democrats Decry Trump’s Health Cuts

Infectious disease specialists say the viruses are unlikely to become pandemics, but some are still raising concerns about the federal health response and what it portends should 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...

The Plague in the Shadows

Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to take lives today.  But ear...

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...

Ebola Outbreak: 952 Confirmed Cases and 247 Deaths

Ebola Outbreak: 952 Confirmed Cases and 247 DeathsMac SlavoThe Ebola virus is still making its way through the Democratic Republic of Congo. SO far, there have been 952 confirmed c...

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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...