A thief who broke into a zoo in Tasmania, Australia, may now be infected with a deadly monkey virus. A city official in Launceston said the intruder broke into a monkey enclosure in a city park on ...

A man is in critical condition after he was bitten by a monkey and contracted a rare but potentially lethal virus. The 37-year-old man was bitten by wild monkeys in Hong Kong's Kam Shan Country Park ...

According to the WHO, the monkeypox virus or MPV, was first detected in 1958 in a monkey used in a Denmark research lab. In 1970, the first human case, a 9-month-old boy, was found in the Democratic ...

A man in China has become the first recorded person to die after being infected with the Monkey B virus (BV) in the country, according to the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ...

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is “poised for spillover” to humans, according to new CU Boulder ...

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