Since the infection was first detected in humans in 1998, there have been sporadic new outbreaks across the so-called Nipah ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

If nothing else, the recently released interagency report documents the vast amount of effort that has gone into unraveling the origin story for SARS-COV-2. There are four possible versions of this ...

In Malaysia, NiV causes a highly dangerous infection carried by bats, which can also infect pigs and humans through close ...

Events such as the World Cup could have facilitated the spread, scientists say. — -- It’s not just humans who can travel rapidly across the world. Viruses and disease-spreading insects and ...

(AP) — Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting ...

A joint research team discovered and characterized ushikuvirus, a new giant DNA virus that infects vermamoeba. This image (a) shows the 3D reconstruction of the virus, highlighting its spiked capsid ...