HEALTH chiefs are scrambling to contain an outbreak of ‘brain swelling’ bat-borne virus considered ‘next pandemic’. At least five people in India’s West Bengal state have now tested positive ...

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 ...

A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada, as far south ...

The Nipah virus is a zoonotic disease. This means it is transmitted from animals to humans. According to the World Health ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the eighth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human animal species. This included many wild animal species as well as domestic ...

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

The first fatality from Alaskapox, a type of orthopoxvirus, has been reported on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. State officials released a bulletin on Feb. 9 detailing that an elderly man contracted ...

An outbreak of a contagious virus is taking over a local animal shelter, resulting in 18 animals being euthanized since the beginning of April.More than 70 animals have tested positive for canine ...