All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2020 // China’s mysterious respiratory virus has caused six deaths and infected a number of medical workers, a sign the outbreak has entered a new phase with the illness spreading from person to person.Health-care workers...
Aug 2 2019 // World Bank funding instruments issued to help emerging countries swiftly tackle pandemics have come under the spotlight after the latest deadly Ebola outbreak has yet to trigger a payout.Following the 2013-2016 Ebola...
Apr 25 2019 // It’s a familiar and ominous story. A deadly pathogen with no known cure begins spreading in China. Rather than acknowledge the problem, officials throughout the Chinese government shut down media coverage, while...
May 22 2018 // Marsh has launched a new insurance product to provide financial protection to US-based businesses and their global operations affected by an infectious disease outbreak.PathogenRX, developed by Marsh in collaboration with...
Mar 13 2017 // Urgent action is required to limit the global fallout from rising obesity levels, according to a report published by health insurance provider Aetna International.Aetna International said it analyzed data from the World...
Jul 26 2016 // Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced it has expanded its Global Pandemic Model to include outbreaks of six additional diseases.The model now explicitly accounts for nine pathogens,...
Jul 11 2016 // The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the United States.This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas – particularly insurance products – and then exporting them to other...
Jun 29 2016 // A pandemic influenza outbreak in the United States could have economic costs nearly double the total amounts experts have previously calculated, depending on how the public, government and businesses respond to an...
Jan 26 2016 // AXIS Healthcare—the division of AXIS Insurance that provides professional liability insurance and associated standard casualty coverages for physician groups, hospitals, allied healthcare facilities and individual...
Jan 14 2016 // In October of 2000, an Ebola outbreak was detected in Gulu, Uganda. The virus spread across the country, infecting 425 people and killing over half of them. It was a wakeup call for the African nation, but apparently not...
May 14 2014 // Two Florida hospital workers suspected of exposure to a potentially lethal Arabian virus have tested negative for the disease, a hospital spokesman said.A Saudi Arabian patient who was confirmed to be infected with Middle...
May 13 2014 // Two workers at the Florida hospital where federal officials reported a case of a potentially lethal Arabian virus have fallen ill after coming into contact with the patient.One of the workers has been hospitalized and...
Jun 27 2013 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has released a Pandemic Flu Model, which it says captures the excess morbidity, mortality, and insurance losses caused by pandemic influenza.AIR said the model includes...
Apr 8 2013 // Scientists in the Dutch city of Rotterdam know precisely what it takes for a bird flu virus to mutate into a potential human pandemic strain, because they’ve created just such mutant viruses in the laboratory.So, as...
Apr 3 2013 // Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic, scientists say.But there is no...
Feb 24 2010 // Has the swine flu pandemic peaked globally? Not quite, World Health Organization advisers decided on Tuesday.WHO is taking a big risk in making such an announcement at all, and the wording of WHO Director-General Dr....
Oct 28 2009 // Aon’s London office has announced that companies can now insure themselves for costs incurred if their building or the vicinity is officially closed due to a pandemic.Aon launched the coverage as cases of the H1N1...
Jul 24 2009 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a bulletin to coincide with the start up of the UK’s National Pandemic Flu Service.The bulletin notes that the UK’s “travel insurance industry has...
Jun 12 2009 // Big European reinsurers said on Friday that they still expected no major losses from an influenza outbreak that the World Health Organization (WHO) this week declared the first flu pandemic of the 21st Century.“The...
Jun 3 2009 // The spread of H1N1 flu in Australia, Britain, Chile, Japan and Spain has nudged the world closer to a pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.The newly-discovered strain had caused more infections than...