Researchers found that a significant portion of rodents in the Pacific Northwest were carrying the Sin Nombre virus (SNV).

Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo​ attacked and burned a tent that was part ...

Officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred from speaking directly with the World Health Organization – effectively shutting them out of global ...

Giant viruses are so named because of the size of their genome. (Tumeggy/Science Photo Library/) Researchers have discovered ...

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship raises concerns, but experts say the human-to-human Andes virus is inefficiently ...

Ebola virus in Bangalore: A woman returning from Uganda was quarantined in Bengaluru with Ebola-like symptoms. Her tests have ...

A public health expert explains what the general public needs to know about hantavirus- from spread, symptoms, treatment and prevention.

This month, a pair of viruses seized the headlines. First came a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, which caused as ...

A Spanish cruise passenger who was evacuated from the MV Hondius ship has tested positive for hantavirus weeks after the ...

A scenic wildlife excursion may have set off a deadly chain of events aboard an expedition cruise now at the center of a growing health investigation.

In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.