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Aside from the US, other countries are likewise confirming shortages of Nintendo Switch hardware and physical copies of its games.

According to the numbers indicated by the Folding@Home servers, the current computing power is now maxing out at an exaflop.

According to reports, the original order placed with Dyson was for 10,000 ventilator units to be distributed to the country's National Health Service (NHS).

As Britain joined other nations in imposing strict stay-at-home orders, the number of virus deaths worldwide surged past 16,500.

The negative mood was fuelled by the failure of US lawmakers to agree on a trillion-dollar emergency package to help the reeling American economy.

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan confirms that his company will provide up to one million surgical masks to help fight the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to be quarantined at Sandringham estate if COVID-19 outbreak worsens in the UK.

Smallpox is estimated to have killed between 300-500 million people in the 20th century alone, before being eradicated in the late 70s.

Common belief that killer plague was spread mainly by parasites on rats undermined by research that points blame at human fleas and lice.

How can you tell where an undiscovered virus will emerge that could infect humans?

The current outbreak of bird flu is the worst since 2013

The bubonic plague reached Genoa in the summer of 1347.

Scientists analyse 600 strains on flu to better understand risk posed by pigs.

Gain-of-function research was banned in 2014 after a number of deadly accidents.

Brazil's health ministry claims most of the 508 cases of microcephaly are linked to the Zika infection.

Story of cancelled open world game that led to the shutting down of Pandemic Australia.

Scientists say immediate action must be taken to prevent transmission of new strain of swine flu to humans.

1 km poultry exclusion zone set up round 'low severity' poultry farm

UK health authorities seek fellow passengers of man infected with deadly camel-borne virus

Paris' Pasteur Institute misplaced vials containing virus responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome