Experts warn that two animal-borne pathogens capable of human transmission could spread further without better surveillance ...

"Future mortality will depend on how health systems, policymakers, and societies address the risks now." Scientists sound ...

The race to have vaccines ready for distribution within three months of the next pandemic breaking out needs to take into account the possibility of an AI being used to artificially create a virus or ...

Could artificial intelligence tools be used to stop the next pandemic before it starts? During the Covid pandemic, new technology developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke universities didn’t ...

At the University of Pennsylvania, microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente is using AI to more quickly make discoveries in biology and medicine. Much of the work has focused on antibiotics — new molecules ...

TIME polled 73 public health experts, asking them to rate some 50 initiatives that could mitigate or even prevent another ...

H5N1 bird flu, prevalent in U.S. wild birds, has caused increasing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, leading to 70 human cases and one death since 2024. Experts are divided on the pandemic ...

A Cambridge-based program is tackling the growing threat of engineered pandemics, seeking to prevent bioweapon-driven outbreaks before they begin. Reading time 2 minutes Half a decade after the ...

Five years ago, the World Health Organization held a press briefing in Geneva to declare the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In a prime-time address that same night, President Trump reassured the nation ...

"Why would you have some illicit labs set up in an Airbnb, except for, maybe, you're trying to create some sort of, you know, ...