SINGAPORE] Scientists have discovered 20 previously unknown viruses in bats from China’s Yunnan province, including two ...

A group of little-known bat viruses may be dangerously close to acquiring the ability to infect humans, raising alarms among virologists about the next potential spillover event. According to a new ...

New research highlights the increased risk of heart attacks and strokes triggered by common respiratory viruses like flu and ...

The CDC recently announced that Oropouche virus, also known as “sloth fever,” is an emerging virus in the United States. Here's what you need to know about how the virus is transmitted, what ...

During the study, the team detected 125 viruses, including 36 that have never been discovered before. “39 of these viruses, including 13 new ones, may pose a 'high risk' of passing from one ...

As part of the same plan, he also promised an additional $1.2 billion in funding toward discovering new compounds that can treat SARS-CoV-2 as well as other emerging viruses with pandemic potential.

More than 8,000 cases of Oropouche virus have been reported this year as of August 1. Most have been in South America, but infections are also spreading in countries where it hasn’t been seen ...

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or ... The virus arrived in the United States in the summer of 2014, although thus ...

The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects that spread it to spread out. Here's what we know.

It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion about how to control deadly emerging viruses. The virus is still with us ...