#Pandemics

Our health is personal, but health risks are not. Around the world, entire populations — both human and wildlife — are facing new health challenges, all driven by the same culprit: environmental degradation.

The next big one won't come from the hantavirus cruise outbreak, but there are still lessons to take away from it, experts say.

The shipboard hantavirus outbreak is a dire warning: A mobile world makes infection prevention — in the travel industry and in hospitals — more vital than ever.

From Nypost RSS Feed: The US ranked No. 33 in health in new global rankings — who beat us and why

Millions of student loan borrowers fell into default early this year – and a second wave of delinquencies could be on its way, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks

From Nypost RSS Feed: New photos show stranded cruise ship passengers passing time as health workers watch for hantavirus symptoms

Contact tracing and quarantines should be enough to halt the spread of the deadly disease, a top epidemiologist said.

A 64-year-old Chinese national has been convicted by a federal jury of selling more than a million fraudulent COVID-19 tests nationwide out of a makeshift Fresno biolab.

From Reddit - r/dataisbeautiful: What were the death tolls from pandemics in history? [OC]