Pandemic

The Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaizen Gaming has reflected on his journey with the company after it announced it has hit a valuation of $10bn.  Speaking at the Athens Tech Festival, George Daskalakis talked the audience through how the company has navigated headwinds from a Greek financial crisis…

Perfectionism among college students has become a public-health crisis, and the shape of our economy is likely to blame, according to new research. Rates of perfectionism have soared among college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom over the past 35 years, with especially debilitating forms of…

Freetown - The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the National Public Health Agency (NPHA) have received sixteen Honda motorbikes from the World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the Pandemic Fund, to strengthen public health emergency preparedness and response across Sierra Leone. The handover ceremony took place at the WHO…

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal health agencies have become a political liability after a deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship and the spread of an even more fearsome disease, Ebola, in Africa. At least that’s the way many Democrats see it. They have seized on the…

Peter Murrell bought more than 100 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic-buying during the pandemic. The disgraced SNP chief executive splurged on the essentials as his now estranged wife urged Scots to 'apply common sense' when lockdown loomed in March 2020. Murrell…

With summer around the corner, soaring prices and other complications from the war with Iran are straining the tourism-dependent economies of countries in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Vietnam. The region's peak tourist summer season is at risk as elevated jet fuel costs coupled with ceasefire uncertainties prompt flight cancellations…

1925 portrait of Maria Branyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity. Maria Branyas lived through two world wars, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Spanish Civil War, and COVID-19. When she died in 2024 at age…

We now know that the 1918 influenza pandemic was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Published: April 12, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to investigate an  outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections that…

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— Federal leadership should act now to enhance our response strategy by Daniel Teres, MD April 11, 2026 • 5 min read Six years after the COVID pandemic began, we are still locked in three of the five stages of a so-called typical response to a pandemic, as described in…