A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us.

What Is Avian Influenza? Avian influenza, or the bird flu, is an extremely infectious respiratory disease that affects all domestic poultry, including laying hens, broilers, and turkeys, as well as ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have detected alarming rates of Escherichia albertii, an emerging foodborne ...

A second case of tularaemia has been confirmed in Luxembourg by the Ministry of Agriculture, raising concerns after the ...

As human activity alters the environment, kissing bugs and parasites will ultimately adapt. The geographic range of infected ...

While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. The more people in a ...

Zika virus manipulated human skin cells to release mosquito-attracting odors. Insights into the virus’s transmission tactics can help curb its spread.

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

aDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA bDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA ...

The fear is that these pathogens will spark outbreaks of diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, and E. coli. This warning comes from a large international team of scientists who study human, animal, ...

Filthy farms and markets brimming with sick, distressed animals could be hotspots for the emergence of deadly new viruses that might be transmitted from animals to humans. Top health experts have ...

Even then, the pathogen might not be able to break out of its human ... Sporadic, individual cases of H5N1 among people suggest that human-to-human transmission may likely occur at some point. But ...