Pandemic

(CNN)The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is not a pandemic, World Health Organization officials said Tuesday, adding that they're hopeful transmission of the virus can be contained. The agency acknowledges that it is challenging to contain the virus because of g…

Scientists and disease experts say the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak could soon be declared a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the coronavirus — whose scientific name is 2019-nCoV — a "public-health emergency of international concern" la…

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The novel coronavirus that’s sickening thousands globally — and at least five people in the US — is inspiring countries to close their borders and Americans to buy up surgical masks quicker than major retailers can restock them. There’s another virus that has infected 15 million Americans across the country…

Much of the organizational thinking about disease outbreaks, and about crisis management in general, has focused on preparation. With the sudden emergence of a deadly new coronavirus, organizational preparedness is key. In recent years, many companies, for ex…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China confirmed another 15 deaths in the province at the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has now infected more than 1,000 people globally, highlighting the challenges for health authorities around the world working to preven…

A video game about a world-ravaging pandemic that kills half of humanity has shot to the top of Apples App Store in China at the same time as three cities have been put into lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Plague Inc, first released in 2012, …

Eric Toner, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, wasn't shocked when news of a mysterious coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, surfaced in early January. Less than three months prior, Toner had staged a simulation of a global pandemi…

TOKYO (Reuters) - An outbreak of a new virus in China has raised fears of a global pandemic, forcing Japan to confront the possibility of deadly contagion and disruption as it prepares to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. The disease that has killed 17 people …

BEIJING (Reuters) - Residents of China’s Wuhan scrambled to stock up on supplies on Thursday as authorities suspended transport links in and out of the city in a bid to stop the spread of a new coronavirus that has raised fears of a global pandemic. The vir…