Wary of the coronavirus, North Korea has all but shut its borders, choking its economic lifelines. How grim a toll might the disease take? A wedding in Pyongyang (Photo by Sarah Edmonds) North Korea vaulted back into international headlines this month, with Western...
The World Heath Organization has declared the new coronavirus a global public health emergency. What does that mean? And what are the dangers? A man stands along a river in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, 20 January 2020 (AP Photo/Arek Rataj,...
Coronavirus headlines are taking readers on a roller coaster of fear, hope and confusion. Here are tips for telling what’s true and what’s not. Medical staff check the temperature of passengers at Nanjing South Railway station in Nanjing, China, 27 January...
News-Decoder’s correspondents have covered some of the world’s biggest health crises over the past half century — HIV/AIDS, mad-cow disease, SARS, bird flu, H1N1, Ebola and now the coronavirus disease. In the article below, first published in 2015,...