Research shows that many viruses can linger in the air and on surfaces long after an infected person has left the room — ...

Travel advisories have been issued for the Seychelles, Bolivia, Cuba, Suriname and Sri Lanka due to chikungunya outbreaks.

The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been ...

Following the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we asked experts about ongoing research into treatments, if there is a cause for concern, and whether they think another quarantine situation is likely.

A new year might mean new viral threats. Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet puts humans in contact with more and different viruses. And increased mobility ...

A YOUNG nurse has died after catching Nipah, a virus that has been dubbed the ‘next pandemic threat’. The 25-year-old was one of two confirmed cases in eastern India and succumbed to the bat-borne ...

By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, Feb 12 (Reuters) - An Indian health worker who contracted the deadly Nipah virus in December has died, a senior health official from the eastern state of West ...

Nipah Virus Death In West Bengal: Nurse who recovered from Nipah virus infection dies of cardiac arrest in Bengal hospital. Scroll down to know more about this virus and it's fatality rate.

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

The discovery of bird flu in dairy cow milk highlighted a previously overlooked target for the H5N1 virus: mammary glands. A new study suggests it’s not unique to cows. An H5N1 virus isolated from an ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...