As the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic escalated quickly over the last two days, the PGA Tour was forced to react during its flagship event on Thursday.

The global over-reaction to coronavirus has again exposed a lack of preparedness that will persist unless we spend as much on health as on weapons, says Julie Sunderland

The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died today, a little more than a week after his illness exposed gaps in the nation’s defences against the disease and set off a scramble to track down anyone exposed to him.

A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the US government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two transatlantic flights, health officials said today.