Two of them were henipaviruses, related to zoonotic viruses, characterised as highly dangerous, and are closely related to ...

This raises fresh concerns about the risk of animal pathogens infecting people.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Researchers have discovered two new viruses in bats that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses—pathogens ...

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 ...

A more effective vaccine technology may be on the horizon. In a new study in mice, researchers from the University of ...

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

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.

Here’s what to know about the emerging threat. What is Oropouche virus? Oropouche virus gets its name from the village in Trinidad and Tobago where it was discovered in 1955.

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.

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting ...