The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, ...

Local health experts say Greater Boston is generally more prepared for a pandemic now than it was in 2020, but headwinds ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

As bird flu continues to rampage in dairy farms and poultry facilities around the country, the office tasked with coordinating the federal government's response to pandemic threats, including bird flu ...

The first COVID-19 case in Massachusetts was reported on Feb. 1, 2020, involving a UMass Boston student who had returned to ...

According to the External Affairs Ministry, the ‘Quad Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness for the Indo-Pacific Region’ will ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

Leading experts in the biosecurity community agree on some approaches to preventing and mitigating biosecurity risks but hold ...

Even as more people are dying from flu, the Trump administration has postponed vaccine planning for next fall's flu season.

The U.S. will struggle to maintain an effective response to a future H5N1 epidemic unless schools are made as "pandemic proof ...

The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy was established by Congress in 2022 in response to mistakes that led to a flat-footed response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mayor Eric Adams and his challengers have their own ideas for how the city could weather a future health crisis.