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

Nipah Virus is a deadly zoonotic threat that has resurfaced in some parts of the globe, further raising global health ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

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

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 ...

The groundbreaking viral theory proposed by Professor Masaharu Takemura and Dr. Philip Bell, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan, shows that the nucleus or control center of a cell actually ...

After three long years, the COVID-19 global health emergency is over. So says the World Health Organization, which made that declaration on May 5. WHO is the sole agency tasked with orchestrating ...