Viruses easily spread between humans through coughs, needles, and sex. Animals can also infect humans through infected feces, blood, and tissue.

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

New research reveals how ancient pathogens, including plague and leprosy, entered human populations over 37,000 years.

Megin Nichols, the CDC’s director in the division of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases, explains the ties ...

Dogs can't catch human colds but they have common infections of their own like kennel cough, dog flu, and upper respiratory ...

This is a “what if” interview from the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network. To view the rest of the series, click here. In a rapidly interconnected world, the dangers and threats posed by ...

Kansas State University researchers and collaborators are creating a buzz in the world of mosquito-borne virus research with a new study on Japanese encephalitis virus, which can infect humans and ...

Influenza D virus (IDV) and Influenza C virus (ICV) represent unique members of the Orthomyxoviridae family that have garnered increasing attention due to their circulation among animal populations ...

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing ...

Pilar Pérez Romero is affiliated with the spin-off company Vaxdyn SL as a founding partner. Lee Rafuse Haines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...