Virus

A study published by researchers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Belgium, and several other countries on Monday found that the current outbreak of the rare Ebola Bundibugyo strain probably began with transmission from animals to humans.

A man from a village in the Netherlands who died during the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has been identified.

A highly contagious virus is suspected of affecting nearly 80 people who were onboard Holland America’s Westerdam ship in Hong Kong.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Friday said the “risk of further spread of infection” from the small outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India is “low.”

The Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) and World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Friday confirmed an outbreak in Ethiopia of the lethal Marburg virus, a pathogen with symptoms similar to the infamous Ebola virus, but even more deadly and difficult to treat.

A severe strain of the Monkeypox (mpox) virus has been detected in Los Angeles, public health officials confirmed on Thursday.

Wild rabbits in Colorado have been spotted with unusual protrusions on their heads, described as “horn-like” or “tentacle-like” growths.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly shipped thousands of viruses to a Chinese military-linked biolab in Wuhan.

Researchers have discovered a bat coronavirus in China that is raising concerns, but the risk of it infecting humans is reportedly low.

Officials are investigating a measles outbreak hitting areas in west Texas, with more than a dozen patients hospitalized, the news coming after health agencies said the childhood disease was eliminated in 2000. 

Data shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that norovirus cases have been surging across the country.

Former coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci was hospitalized for six days after contracting the West Nile virus, a spokesperson confirmed.

The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.

The CDC has warned state health officials to prepare for a surge of bird flu cases in humans as more cattle herds test positive.

Health officials say an elderly man who lived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is the first individual to die of a virus known as Alaskapox.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning to Americans of a listeria outbreak in dairy products.

The Indian state of Kerala shut down schools and colleges in the city of Kozhikode through September 24 in response to the confirmation of six cases of Nipah virus, a bat-borne pathogen whose outbreaks have resulted in death rates as high as 94 percent.

An unidentified sickness has been killing dogs in Northern Michigan with symptoms including vomiting and bloody stools.

Sex between men appears to be the main factor driving the spread of monkeypox, new research suggests.

Scientists from China and Singapore recently announced the detection of a novel animal-derived virus known as Langya henipavirus (LayV) in at least 35 humans across China’s eastern provinces of Henan and Shandong, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday, noting that the zoonotic virus is often found in shrews.

The number of monkeypox cases in Germany has risen to over 2,000 according to statistics released on Tuesday, as the European Union continues sourcing tens of thousands of jabs to help fight off the virus surge.

After discovering four positive cases of monkeypox, Belgian health authorities have placed those with confirmed cases of the virus into a 21-day quarantine. As of Sunday, Belgian authorities announced four confirmed cases of the virus and have called on anyone

Iraq’s Ministry of Health announced Saturday that the country was experiencing “a dangerous rise in viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) cases,” with the ministry recording 90 infections and 18 deaths from the disease in recent days, India’s Zee News reported on Sunday.

Sweden and Italy are the latest countries to report cases of the so-called “Monkeypox”, with others already reported in Spain and the UK.

The first American case of the rare virus monkeypox has been discovered in Massachusetts and may have originated in Canada.

Pope Francis urged a group of university students Sunday to fight off the “virus of individualism” by giving their lives in service of others.

Health authorities in southern India’s Kerala state said they were monitoring 68 people under quarantine at a state hospital on Wednesday for possible exposure to the Nipah virus — far deadlier than the Chinese coronavirus — after a 12-year-old Kerala boy died from Nipah on Sunday.

India recorded its first bird flu death on Tuesday after an 11-year old boy in New Delhi succumbed to complications caused by an avian flu virus of the H5N1 strain, the Times of India reported on Thursday.

Scientists have found more than 30 viruses frozen in Communist China glaciers near the Tibetan Plateau with many of the viruses never seen before. 

When the NIH ordered a pause on funding of “gain-of-function” research, were China’s labs — particularly the Wuhan Institute of Virology — covered as well?

If he seriously cared about his future subjects, he’d really be talking about the disastrous consequences of Boris Johnson’s Net Zero policy.

It was with wonder-weapons that we won World War II. And it’s with medical wonder-weapons that we’ll win World War Virus.

Seven-year-old Curtis Rogers, of Raleigh, North Carolina, created a social distance-style prom for his babysitter on Tuesday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar detailed Operation Warp Speed on Tuesday at the White House, a government effort to speed the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

Americans want to “pull together as a country” to overcome the coronavirus outbreak despite the efforts of news media outlets such as CNN, said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), offering his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

China is lying about the state of coronavirus within its territory while enjoying support from U.S. news media, said Frank Gaffney.