Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is ...

Officials confirmed Tuesday that morbillivirus, a virus similar to measles, is the culprit in the death of more than 300 dolphins along the East Coast in recent weeks. It is the same virus that killed ...

Scientists have discovered a new, much less invasive method for testing whales for pathogens. In the past, scientists needed ...

In order to monitor the health of whales, scientists have been flying drones over Arctic waters to collect the creatures’ breath. The new technique has helped detect a deadly pathogen called cetacean ...

When you look up from your book during your summer trip to the shore, nothing sparks the imagination like the quick, dark glitter of a curved dorsal fin dipping playfully through the surf, just beyond ...

Emerging infectious diseases comprise a substantial fraction of important human infections, with potentially devastating global health and economic impacts. A 2008 paper in Nature described the ...

Some Northwest residents don’t do social distancing well, which leaves them vulnerable to an outbreak of a highly contagious respiratory virus. These residents are orcas. The virus is called cetacean ...

Measles morbillivirus formerly called the measles virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, non-segmented RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae. It is the ...