Viruses

Viruses from bats are likely to be more deadly to humans than viruses from other animals, due to bats' evolved resistance to inflammation.

An 80-year-old woman died in mid-July after being bitten by a tick carrying the virus, marking the second U.S. death from the disease this year.

Around 10,000 cats are thought to have died after a strain of feline coronavirus spread around the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean.

In the first cases of H5N1 bird flu detected in cats in the country for seven years, two cats have died from the virus in South Korea.

Avian influenza is a highly contagious disease that primarily affects birds but has the potential to spill over into mammals, including—in rare cases—humans.

The moose was the first-ever to test positive for rabies in North America, and appeared "stumbling, drooling profusely," with "bare patches of skin."

This incident marks the 12th outbreak this year reported by the CDC, a notable increase from previous years.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, impervious to the usual drugs, are on the rise, leading scientists to look into using viruses to fight them instead.

Warring forces have occupied Sudan's national laboratory in Khartoum, a situation the local WHO chief described as "extremely dangerous."

The virus is a close relative of Ebola and causes very similar symptoms, including hemorrhaging and organ failure.

The number of labs handling dangerous pathogens has increased to more than 100 worldwide, a report has found, as debate over the origin of COVID-19 rages.

The former medical advisor to the president stressed his transparency amid fresh accusations he had engaged in a "cover-up" of COVID lab leak theory evidence.

China's COVID secrecy and "fairly limited" systemic global monitoring "leads to a perpetual risk of a wider outbreak of infections," a Stanford professor said.

The discovery could aid the development of treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as well as defenses against agriculturally harmful pathogens.

A study of virus spillover from bats to other animals in Australia could have significant implications for the prevention of future pandemics.

The virus that causes the disease is highly infectious and can spread easily among rabbits and hares.

Colossal Biosciences is working on the development of a vaccine designed to protect endangered Asian elephants from a highly fatal disease.

There have been 36 suspected cases of Ebola in Uganda and Sudan virus is the cause, the World Health Organization has said.

The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency in light of the unprecedented spread of the virus in 2022.

Researchers have discovered that a virus originally found in Russian bats, which is related to SARS-CoV-2, may be capable of infecting human cells.

Cryptococcus neoformans' natural habitat of bird droppings may have allowed it to adapt to living in cerebrospinal fluid in the brain.

CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, who ordered the review, has vowed to make a series of changes at the agency.

There have been 35 cases of Langya virus across two provinces in China and it is unclear whether it is treatable.

The cases have been reported out of the provinces of Shandong and Henan.

The infant was the son of one of the virus's first victims in Ghana, with its mother also testing positive.

Over the course of 2022, more than 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified worldwide in countries where the rare disease is not normally reported.

Standard disinfectants are becoming less and less effective and require reapplication, according to researchers.

Hidden germs in the kitchen make one in six Americans sick every year.

Widespread vaccinations efforts have helped to eradicate polio—a potentially debilitating or deadly disease—in the wild across most of the globe.

Viruses that cause sickness in humans can attach to microplastics, remaining infectious for much longer than they would otherwise.