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

Health chiefs in India have sounded a nationwide alert after two nurses were struck down by the rare, bat-borne virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 30, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed ...

The infection has a high mortality rate.

A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The virus, PelV-1 uses its tail to attach to its intended victim while ...

There’s been a new interest in diseases and viruses lately thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people being a little more wary of germs than they were before 2020. Now, the World Health Organization ...

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has launched the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, a tool designed to help ...

You know that deadly viruses can wreak havoc on humans and animals—but did you know that some viruses can actually infect ...

Researchers used drones to sample whale blow and discovered cetacean morbillivirus in Arctic whales for the first time.

Back in May, the White House issued an executive order to strengthen biological research safety and quickly drew the attention of scientists and the biosafety community. The push ...

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