Five confirmed Nipah virus cases in West Bengal have triggered a high alert as the infection is extremely lethal, spreads ...

The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever. Lee Haines, CC BY-ND Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organization ...

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over ...

Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys, ...

In a recent review published in the journal Virology, researchers examined the increasing diversity of human viruses, their epidemiological significance, and preventive strategies to mitigate emerging ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...