Could the "Wetland virus" be the next global health threat? Transmitted by ticks, this virus is raising concerns. First ...

Jason Farned and his team at the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District had spent years preparing for the ...

A student has died of brain-swelling fever caused by a virus on the World Health Organization watchlist. The patient, 24, is the second person to die from a Nipah infection in the same town in ...

Pigs represent a particular concern for the spread of bird flu because they can become co-infected with bird and human viruses, which could swap genes to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

more dangerous virus that can more easily infect humans. Bird flu was first detected in poultry on the noncommercial farm, the Oregon agriculture department said Friday. State and federal ...

Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said ...

After first appearing in birds in Argentina in February of 2023, a "highly pathogenic" strain of H5N1 was spotted in infected ...

In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to ...

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"Many viruses that we don't know about circulate in animals that live in close proximity to humans," researcher Emily DeRuyter said.