New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Researchers discovered how rabies virus exerts massive control over host cells with very few genes. A key viral protein ...

The Peter Kim Lab was recently awarded $18 million by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to create a vaccine to protect ...

An experimental flu test could detect the virus right on the tip of your tongue. Researchers in Germany have potentially discovered a new way to spot influenza through an edible test, potentially like ...

Marburg virus disease is a severe, often fatal, infection passed from fruit bats to people. In a September 2024 Marburg virus disease outbreak in two Rwandan hospitals, mortality rates may have been ...

On September 27, 2024, Rwanda reported an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD), after a cluster of cases of viral hemorrhagic fever was detected at two urban hospitals. We report key aspects of the ...

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Alexander Richard Braczkowski is the scientific director of the Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust Kyambura Lion Project. Over just four months, our cameras recorded 261 predator encounters: crowned ...

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases. By Anthony Ham Bats carry an ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a ...