The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how quickly zoonotic diseases can spread globally. As a result, scientists worldwide have increased efforts to study viruses circulating in wildlife and improve early ...

The next big one won't come from the hantavirus cruise outbreak, but there are still lessons to take away from it, experts say.

A new international collaborative study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Modern air travel allows infected individuals to move across continents within hours. Diseases that may once have remained localised can now spread internationally before symptoms are even detected.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study from an international team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Photo by D. Calma for IAEA. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, launched an initiative on June 15 to strengthen global preparedness for future ...

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) reduced the incidence of acute diarrhea, with a decrease in most enteric pathogen infections, except for non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS). During the pandemic ...

The recent reports of eight hantavirus cases and three deaths have pushed the rare infection back into global discussion. For many people, the sudden headlines have raised an unsettling question: Is ...