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A woman walks outside of a COVID-19 testing center at the Incheon International Airport In Incheon, South Korea, on Feb. 10, 2023. 

‘The pandemic is still with us’: The bumpy road to the end of COVID

COVID-19

Pinpointing the “end” of the coronavirus pandemic depends on the vantage point. The World’s host Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Michael Mina, a leading epidemiologist and the chief science officer at EMed, a digital health care company, along with Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist and professor at Columbia University, to learn more about the “bumpy, difficult off-ramp” from COVID-19.

Faithful photographic reproduction of Edvard Munch's painting, "Self-Portrait with Spanish Flu."

Art, poetry and … zombies? The surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic

Coronavirus Art
Women in uniform hold stretchers in front of ambulances in this historic photo.

How the Spanish flu could have changed 1919’s Paris peace talks

1918 flu Camp Funston

The world remains unprepared to handle a major epidemic, a new book warns

Health

Cause for Concern Beyond China? Laurie Garrett on the H7N9 Flu

Global Politics
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Animal Infections That Spill Over Into Humans

Health & Medicine

Swine flu, along with AIDS and SARS make up a group of diseases called zoonotic diseases. And such diseases may be on the rise, according to a new book called “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.”

When Is It Acceptable to Censor Science?

The government advisory board that oversees biosecurity in the U.S. is asking the scientific journals  Nature and Science to censor details of recent studies on bird flu due to concerns about biological terrorism. Researchers created mutations of the A(H5N1) virus, making it  transferable  between mammals through the air. In 60 percent of human cases, this strain of avian […]

Ready or Not

LOE talks with a woman who runs a website of people who want information about what to do if the bird flu epidemic comes to town.

Flu Preparedness

A look at what the Bush administration is doing, and should be doing, to protect Americans in the event of a worldwide influenza pandemic.

Avian Flu

A virus common in birds could have widespread and fatal consequences for humans. That’s according to the World Health Organization which recently announced an avian flu pandemic would be “very, very likely” in the next few years. Recent reports have found that the virus has jumped from birds to humans. Scientists worry that if the […]

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