In the past two months, “coronavirus” has become a household word. But how much do we know about the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19? Here are some key facts as well as information about what to expect and how to prepare.

Each year, between 5% and 20% of Americans get the flu. Their cases range in severity from mild to life-threatening. Thankfully, there are preventive measures you can take to help protect you and your loved ones from the influenza virus, the most effective of which is the flu vaccine.

As coronavirus cases increase, the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak could become a pandemic. But does that refer to the disease’s spread, severity – or both? Epidemiologist and public health researcher Brian Labus explains.

The increasing number of cases of coronavirus being diagnosed around the world has prompted fears that the outbreak will become a “pandemic”.

According to an NPR PBS NewsHour Marist poll, 66-percent of Americans believe the coronavirus is a real threat. But according to some local health officials, you should be more concerned about catching the flu. Every day health officials are teaming up with businesses and government agencies to prepare for the risk or spread of disease. We'll discuss how prepared the valley is for an outbreak.

It has been over two months since the coronavirus outbreak was first reported and a lot about the virus continues to remain a mystery.

The Southern Nevada Health District told a Henderson couple who returned home Sunday from an ill-fated Asian cruise that they are at “very low risk” to become ill with COVID-19 or to spread the coronavirus to others, despite that another passenger aboard the MS Westerdam has been diagnosed with the illness, according to the couple.

Coronavirus infections in China continue to swell by thousands a day, prompting epidemiologists to estimate when the outbreak will peak. Some suggest the climax, when the number of new infections in a single day reaches its highest point, will happen any time now. Others say that it is months away and that the virus will infect millions — or in one estimate hundreds of millions — of people first.