WHO issues call for experts to help with COVID origins probe
August 20, 2021 GMTGENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has issued a call for experts to join a new advisory group it’s forming, in part to address the agency’s fraught attempts to investigate how the coronavirus pandemic started.
Straight-talking Fauci explains outbreak to a worried nation
March 14, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — If Dr. Anthony Fauci says it, you'd be smart to listen. As the coronavirus has upended daily life across the globe, Fauci has become the trusted voice in separating fact and fiction...
Will heat stop the spread of new virus? No one really knows
March 12, 2020 GMTJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — As outbreaks of the new coronavirus that first emerged in China continue to spread in more than 100 countries — particularly those experiencing winter — one of the biggest unanswered questions is how it will behave in warmer weather...
Q&A: What the WHO pandemic declaration means
March 11, 2020 GMTThe new coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic. So what does that mean?
“Pandemic” has nothing to do with how serious the illness is...
Empty streets, economic turmoil as virus alters daily life
February 29, 2020 GMTTOKYO (AP) — The coronavirus has claimed its first victim in the United States as the number of cases shot up in Iran, Italy and South Korea and the spreading outbreak shook the global economy...
Q&A: Emerging picture of virus shows world at critical stage
February 28, 2020 GMTThe global spread of infection from the new virus reached a critical stage this week with the number of new cases reported in the rest of the world surpassing the number of new cases in China, where the emergency began...
World harshens its virus response as epidemic worsens by day
February 28, 2020 GMTBANGKOK (AP) — Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites, South Korea toughened penalties for those breaking quarantines and airports across Latin America looked for signs of sick passengers as a new virus troubled places around the globe...
Epidemic vs. pandemic? Glossary of terms for virus outbreak
February 24, 2020 GMTSome of the terminology being used about the new virus:
OUTBREAK: A sudden rise in cases of a disease in a particular place...
Health officials worry as untraceable virus clusters emerge
February 22, 2020 GMTIn South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China...
Questions complicate efforts to contain new virus from China
February 15, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases...
Officials: Texas, Nebraska arrivals shouldn’t be ill
February 6, 2020 GMTOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Hundreds of Americans being evacuated from China over a viral outbreak will be quarantined in Texas and Nebraska, officials said Thursday, stressing that it was unlikely that anyone will arrive there with signs of illness...
Too soon to tell if new virus as dangerous as SARS cousin
January 25, 2020 GMTThe new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks...
Science Says: What to know about the viral outbreak in China
January 22, 2020 GMTHealth authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus that originated in China...
Washington man is 1st in US to catch new virus from China
January 21, 2020 GMTSEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle...
Science Says: What to know about the viral outbreak in China
January 21, 2020 GMTHealth authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus that originated in China...
Chinese report says illnesses may be from new coronavirus
January 9, 2020 GMTBEIJING (AP) — A preliminary investigation into viral pneumonia illnesses sickening dozens of people in and around China has identified the possible cause as a new type of coronavirus, state media said Thursday...
Filipino nurse from Saudi Arabia positive for MERS
September 3, 2014 GMTMANILA, Philippines (AP) — A nurse who flew home from Saudi Arabia last week has been confirmed as the Philippines' second case of Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Results of a test done in the nurse's workplace in eastern Saudi Arabia's Dammam city came back positive after she arrived home, Philippine Health Secretary Enrique Ona said Wednesday.