Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the surrounding environment than by testing individual ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

Avian flu, commonly known as bird flu, may be back in the news, but the risk to residents of North Central Ohio is considered low.

A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) offers insights into cell death regulation by viruses like SARS-CoV-2, and how bats and humans respond differently to tricks that ...

A new Europe-wide study investigated the prevalence of protozoans, bacteria and viruses potentially pathogenic to humans and domestic animals in birds and bats in varying climatic conditions. The ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of ...

More than four out of every five dead black vultures examined by University of Georgia researchers tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to a new study published in Nature’s ...

The new GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA vaccine can be delivered as a nasal spray. Three doses protected mice from infection from SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses for three months, and reduced the viral load in ...

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Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus with no vaccine and no targeted antiviral treatment, is among the respiratory illnesses currently going around in the United States alongside ...