Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...

His team at HHS has paused critical communications and meetings, right as public health officials are worried about bird flu.

COVID-19 made its debut in December 2019 and has since caused the deaths of more than 7.1 million people, according to the ...

Researchers examined the Ebola and Marburg viruses ... animals could carry pathogens asymptomatically, allowing them to mutate undetected into potent zoonotic threats. These fears had led Denmark ...

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in viral ...

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well ...

hMPV would likely have to mutate significantly to cause a crisis ... which includes Covid, Ebola, SARS and Zika. Professor Martin Michaelis, of the University of Kent, said: “Even before ...

By comparison, Ebola virus kills between 25 and 90 percent of those infected ... Second, they induced mutations in the polymerase and then observed how the mutated polymerase behaved in cells to ...

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

Second human case of H5N1 bird flu has been deteced in the UK. It is the second symptomatic human case of H5N1 bird flu ...