A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry ...

It points the finger at China, despite acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion of a lab ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now ...

Singapore Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat says Changi Airport’s traffic volume will likely exceed pre-pandemic levels in ...

Leaders from the Biden and Trump administration met last week to discuss how the new government would respond in the event of ...

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...

The city laid out a series of proposals to reduce cancer deaths by 20 percent, and deaths from heart- and diabetes-related ...

Advertised rents in Britain outside London have fallen on a quarterly basis for the first time since 2019 due mostly to a ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...

The rapid labor market recovery from the pandemic, much faster than after the 2008 financial crisis, can be chalked up partly ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...