An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an animal ...

The Code as Witness written by Steven C. Quay is part scientific investigation, part policy strategy, and part warning about ...

Australia is facing its worst diphtheria outbreak in recorded history and Ebola is rapidly spreading overseas.

In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the ...

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the COVID-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has ...

That’s not to say nothing has changed. Those embroiled in the origins fracas now have much more data to scrutinize, debate, and re-debate. In March, I reported that the case for a zoonotic origin had ...

More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery. But on 28 February 2023 the controversial claim that the ...

TORONTO, ON – A recent study of more than 2,700 older Canadians reported older adults with diabetes faced a heightened risk of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cohort, almost 50% of ...