• subscribe

    • World Health Organization

    Staff distribute traditional Chinese medicine on Tuesday intended to treat COVID-19 at the Sanmin residential community in Wuhan, China, where six new cases were recently confirmed. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via Zuma via CP)

    Beijing has fuelled a huge trade in animal-based remedies. Is that where the pandemic began?

    Terry Glavin: A study suggesting the coronavirus arose from trafficking in bat-derived concoctions is getting attention. So is the WHO’s role in legitimizing the business.

    Tedros Adhanom (L), Director General of the World Health Organization, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 28, 2020. (CP/EPA/Naohiko Hatta)

    China was in violation of International Health Regulations. What do we do now?

    As we look towards a post-coronavirus world, we must seek accountability for the human toll and economic devastation that this virus has wrought

    U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. The world's major countries are already jockeying for control of an eventual COVID-19 vaccine. (Artyom Ivanov/TASS/Getty Images)

    How geopolitics is shaping the race for a coronavirus vaccine

    It will instantly become the most highly coveted resource on the planet. National wealth and global political clout may determine who gets it first.

    The science of novel coronavirus

    Timothy Sly: The basic reproductive number of coronavirus is 2.6. Here’s what that means.

    Canadians drink more alcohol than the global average, says report

    A new report from the World Health Organization looks at per capita alcohol consumption in close to 200 countries. Here’s how Canada ranks.

    Why you should back off the bacon backlash

    There are so many other things around us that contain cancer-causing carcinogens—including the mere act of living

    Chasing an Ebola vaccine

    The race for the vaccine is less about stopping this epidemic than protecting against the next one

    How safe are we from Ebola?

    For months, the predictions have been dire. Now, they are almost apocalyptic. The real fight against Ebola is finally under way.

    Why is the overwhelmed MSF in charge of the Ebola fight?

    A ‘perfect storm’ of ‎issues has left the world unprepared to deal with a worsening catastrophe

    Polio expert Bruce Aylward on eradicating the disease worldwide

    And why a failure to immunize every child could lead to an outbreak here

    no-image

    SARS-like virus kills two in Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    The World Health Organization is raising alarm after a virus similar to SARS has now killed two people in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, says a report from Reuters.

    When it comes to bogus health reporting and policy, it really is a small world

    Science-ish reports from Ethiopia

    12