The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

Health officials in Washington are now monitoring a fourth person in King County for possible hantavirus exposure, as a Bend ...

A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University and the University of Toronto has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant ...

A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, although inefficiently, and killed 100% of infected ...

The Nipah virus, a deadly zoonotic disease, is showing signs of spreading in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, prompting local health authorities to launch an emergency response. The virus has a ...

TEN people linked to a deadly rat virus outbreak on a cruise ship are being flown to the UK to isolate. The group, from the ...

Six people evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship after a hantavirus outbreak are returning home or to suitable accommodation ...