There is no evolutionary signal suggesting that these viruses were being “pre-adapted” for humans prior to their outbreaks. Instead, measurable changes in selection typically appeared only after ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Five years ago, a young male cat was brought into Yasukazu Matsumoto's veterinary clinic in Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, burning up with a high fever and vomiting profusely.

Concern among officials is rising as birds are showing up dead by the hundreds across multiple states in the last week.

Debbie McGuire will never forget the memory of the little seabird peering back at her, she said, only the tiny eyes visible ...

Since its first documentation in 1976, there have been more than three dozen outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Central and West Africa, the largest of which resulted in the deaths of more than ...

U.S. shifts THAAD from South Korea to Middle East as Seoul vows deterrence Seoul downplays security gap as U.S. reallocates ...

Since 1999, when Nipah virus was first identified in Malaysia, it has repeatedly emerged in south and southeast Asia, quietly exploiting ecological and social susceptibilities. The danger of Nipah ...

New Scientist reporter James Woodford recalls his run-in with rabbits I was working a Sunday shift when the news came through, and it gave me an instant sinking feeling – the big kind that you ...