How Our Cities Are Inviting Wildlife Viruses In As suburbs expand into forests, grasslands, and wetlands, the boundary between human and wildlife spaces becomes less distinct.

A 25-year-old nurse in India has died after contracting the Nipah virus, senior health officials in the country have warned.

A sequencing study conducted in Uganda reveals that one in four people has been exposed to a deadly hemorrhagic virus.

"Health checks have also been ordered for people entering ... through other border crossings." Officials issue urgent warning amid race to contain outbreak of disease with no known cure: 'Intensified ...

Key points Nipah virus is a bat-borne virus which was first identified in 1998. It is not present in Australia It can cause ...

Named for the Malaysian village where it was first identified, the Nipah virus is an infectious disease transmitted primarily by bats.

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of invading cells, hijacking their machinery and spreading with ruthless efficiency. Now researchers are turning that evolutionary expertise ...

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was ...

Nipah virus is rare, deadly, and tightly monitored, but for travelers and the US public, awareness beats alarm.

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins - influenza D virus and canine coronavirus - have so far been quietly flying under ...

COVID-19 took the world by storm in early 2020, being declared a pandemic in March of that year. While it was the most recent emerging infectious disease, experts anticipate it won’t be the last. Well ...