The new virus, too, was discovered in the bats first..New coronavirus variant , China New Coronavirus , HKU5 COV-2 ...

The United States is facing a growing threat from the H5N1 bird flu outbreak. Scientists are concerned that existing vaccines ...

Five years on, we are less prepared for another outbreak, so it is valuable to consider what we learned, what mistakes were ...

A new highly contagious and severe strain of mpox is spreading after a major outbreak in central Africa. Even though The World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency following ...

A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

This month marks five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was circulating for months, likely ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

The H7N9 strain of bird flu was detected on a poultry farm in Mississippi. The infection of 47,654 commercial chickens was ...

Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting ...

The H5N1 virus was detected in a single animal in Yorkshire, the British government said on Monday. It added that the risk to humans remained very low.