A model for optimizing the dispensing of vaccines during pandemics that uses a new measure of success for such efforts has been developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Ithaca campus of ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers at Washington State University have developed an AI tool that could help prevent pandemics by identifying animal species that may harbor viruses capable of infecting ...

Four new scientific teams joined an international research network developing computer-based simulations of pandemic flu and other infectious disease outbreaks, the National Institute of General ...

As some researchers commented, modeling the trajectory of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is like chasing a moving target. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Increased human–animal interactions lead to the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens, which cause about 75% of infectious diseases affecting human health. In this photograph, wild zebras graze ...

A new pandemic risk model developed by risk modeller Risk Management Solutions could prompt more life insurers and reinsurers to consider transferring peak mortality risk into the capital markets, ...

On December 13, 2021, the US surpassed 800,000 COVID-19 deaths, and more than half of these were under President Biden’s watch, due in large part to the Biden administration’s failure to keep its ...