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Author summary Within 5 months, an emerging human monkeypox virus (MPXV) pandemic has caused >65,000 cases, leading the World Health Organization to declare it a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Applying former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s idiom, we reflect upon the “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and “unknown unknowns” to improve prevention and treatment for this and future pandemics.

Zimbabwean leading researcher and virologist Dr Sikhulile Moyo contributed significantly to a better understanding of COVID-19.

China bans some WeChat users; China using U.S. technology in hypersonic missiles; Russia centralizes video surveillance; U.S. announces new cybersecurity guidelines for railroads; FBI warns hackers s…

The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. When companies, money, people, and ideas went abroad more often than not they went regional.The Globalization Myth details the rise of three main…

After enjoying a long period of deflationary conditions, the global economy is being pushed by a wide range of forces toward a new and more difficult equilibrium.

Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator of the White House national monkeypox response, and Jeremy Youde, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota Du…

As of May, 2022, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused 521 million COVID-19 cases and at least 6 million deaths, worldwide.1 Although the COVID-19 pandemic has led to breathtaking vaccine developments, early treatments to prevent progression of COVID-19, especially in those who are most vulnerable, are urgently needed. But to deploy such treatment will take a substantial change in the perception and management of upper respiratory infections, including COVID-19.

A Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the antiviral tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is now enrolling adults and children with monkeypox infection in the United States.

We are in a time of several colliding health crises that are impacting Black and Brown people disproportionately.

Dr. Anthony Fauci came to Seattle on Tuesday to visit old friends, reminisce and accept an honorary Hutch Award at T-Mobile Park, where he threw a ceremonial first pitch at the start of what turned out to be an epic match-up between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees.