Learn about a new simulation that shows human-to-human transmission of H5N1 will become uncontainable if we miss the narrow ...

Once bird flu crosses the line into efficient human-to-human spread, new modelling suggests the window to contain it could ...

Public health officials and researchers gathered this month for a gamified version of an outbreak investigation. Public health officials and academic researchers gather at The University of Texas at ...

The outbreak started in January 2019. A 57-year-old man returned home to Chicago from a tour of China. Somewhere along the way, his groupincluding travelers from Australia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Illinois Department of Public Health is ...

The developer of pandemic simulator game Plague Inc. is headed in a slightly new direction for his next game. After Inc., which was surprisingly released Friday for iOS and Android, is about ...

Bird flu could be the next pandemic It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the virus could escape ...

The RTS web game Zombie Outbreak Simulator plops you down into a Google Maps-provided area of DC swarming with zombies. The outbreak’s details are up to you: How many civilians? Are they armed? It’s a ...

In January 2020, NYU Langone Health conducted a pandemic simulation, continuing a tradition of tabletop exercises that began years earlier. The exercise not only laid the groundwork for New York ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health launched a measles simulator dashboard Wednesday, with data on vaccination rates school-by-school across the state to help officials assess the severity of a ...

New simulations by Indian researchers show how a human outbreak could unfold—and highlight the importance of early detection and calibrated public health responses ...

SPRINGFIELD – With cases of measles being reported in more than 20 jurisdictions around the United States, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has unveiled a new data dashboard to help ...