Luckily, there are only a little over 1,000 virus strains known to infect humans, the majority of which come from other animals. They're part of a group called zoonotic diseases, caused by ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the nation’s first avian influenza A(H5N1) human ...

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which eerily predicted the kind of zoonotic virus outbreaks that we're seeing ...

the virus can take root. The fact that midges spread it is a serious issue. "Biting midges are known as 'no-see-ums,' " says ...

The individual is recovering after traveling from Africa, where an outbreak that has killed hundreds is spreading.

The "risk of clade I mpox to the public in the United States remains low," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Health officials have confirmed a U.S. case of an aggressive new form of mpox, detected in northern California in someone who ...

The Laboratory for Zoonotic and Viral Diseases is primarily focused on clinical research of human vector-borne diseases and emerging pathogens. SARS-COV-2 virus is an emerging pathogen that results in ...

A virus that is transmitted from an animal (for example, a rodent or bat) to humans is called a zoonotic virus. Some viruses need an intermediate organism, called a vector, to be transmitted from ...

Some zoonotic viruses can be potentially fatal to humans. These include the Nipah virus which has periodic outbreaks among animals and humans in Asia, and the Hendra virus which was first detected ...

Avian influenza (H5N1 influenza virus) is another example of a zoonosis with the potential to trigger a major health crisis. The underlying causes of the rise in zoonoses are multiple and complex.