The reproduction number R is often used as an indicator to predict how quickly an infectious disease will spread.

Amid fears of another global pandemic, social media users are circulating claims that all schools in China have been closed ...

China will deepen reforms of its disease control system and intensify capabilities in monitoring, detecting and handling ...

A new study analyzed data from 2.9 million individuals across 118 countries and found that consumption of sugar-sweetened ...

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...

Appearing to stick closely to what was shown on teleprompters to the left and right of the podium with the familiar ...

Between 1916 and 1930, an epidemic of Sleeping Sickness swept the globe, killing over half a million people. Discover the ...

An eastern German region says it is lifting a ban on the transport of animals that was imposed last weekend after ...

U.S. sociologist Scott Feld wrote, "Your friends have more friends than you do." Feld's so-called friendship paradox states that the friends of any given person have more friends on average than the ...

With President Donald Trump back in the White House, several American doctors are welcoming the new administration’s greater ...

Purdue Pharma will pay more than $7 billion for the corporation's role in fueling the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma reached a ...