World Zoonoses Day highlights the urgent need for surveillance, prevention, and One Health to prevent the next pandemic.

The deadly H5 form of bird flu that has cut a swath across North America and elsewhere for the past five years has finally been detected in Australia. So what’s stopping this virus turning into the ...

There's an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can't see them, bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms are as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe.

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they ...

By examining how the viruses interact with immune systems in both human and bat cells, researchers found that a single ...

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 ...

COVID-19 vaccine boosters not only protect against SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind the most recent pandemic—but may also help ...

Nipah virus is a severe zoonotic virus which can be transmitted from animals to humans. It was first identified in 1999 during an outbreak in Malaysia.