Viruses easily spread between humans through coughs, needles, and sex. Animals can also infect humans through infected feces, blood, and tissue.

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched Viro3D—the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure ...

Dogs can't catch human colds but they have common infections of their own like kennel cough, dog flu, and upper respiratory ...

At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which H5N1 ...

This is a “what if” interview from the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network. To view the rest of the series, click here. In a rapidly interconnected world, the dangers and threats posed by ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will airdrop rabies vaccines across several southeastern U.S. states this fall to combat ...

Influenza D virus (IDV) and Influenza C virus (ICV) represent unique members of the Orthomyxoviridae family that have garnered increasing attention due to their circulation among animal populations ...

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 ...

Wisconsin has seen 13 human cases of West Nile virus this year, according to the Department of Health Services.

Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health ...