Researchers are not just worried about the virus popping up on American farms. Other types are causing trouble around the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) stands as the fastest-spreading and most extensive global health crisis that humanity has faced in a century ...

Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how ...

Researchers investigating Nipah-like illnesses in Bangladesh have uncovered evidence of another bat-borne virus circulating ...

Where did COVID-19 come from? Some think it originated in this Wuhan wet market. While others think it comes from bats. But ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

Five years ago, around this time of year, the world had come to a halt under lockdowns—apparently to contain a novel and dangerous virus. However, the virus was not dangerous to most of the population ...

There was a story about President Eliot of Harvard. When asked what his primary task was, he answered nonchalantly, “To ...

Lima, Peru — Bats have become the latest mammals susceptible to H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus responsible for bird flu. In Peru, over a dozen vampire bats have been found carrying ...

In any infectious outbreak, one of the first steps in the epidemiological response is to locate case one—the first infected patient, also known as the index case or patient zero. This is not a mere ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. This is ...