Anyone who has been on the planet for the last four years will know how viruses that evolve to jump across species, given the right conditions, can rapidly become a serious global crisis. While ...

In a recent study published in the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Emerging Infectious Disease researchers demonstrated that the novel and avian hemagglutinin 3 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The novel coronavirus was first discovered in China, and it rapidly spread around the globe. But where did it come from? "Based on everything that scientists have looked at of the ...

Researchers are using army ants in Congo Basin rainforests to better understand the presence and emergence of zoonoses, diseases transmitted from animals to humans. According to the World Health ...

Outbreaks of mpox have now been reported in more than a dozen countries across Africa, revealing a continent-wide surge just ...

Back in 2016, four years before a pandemic saw the world grind to a halt, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was sounding the alarm on zoonotic diseases, identifying them as a key ...

A team of international researchers, including professors from the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) worked with sources of past zoonotic viruses in order to develop models to predict where ...

Senegal is experiencing its most severe Rift Valley Fever outbreak in decades, with at least 18 deaths and over 100 ...

On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking the tenth instance of Nipah virus spillover (transmission of the pathogen ...