New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

China’s Yunnan. Two of them are genetically similar to lethal Nipah and Hendra, raising fears of spillover via contaminated ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new viruses in bats from China, including two henipaviruses similar to deadly strains. This ...

This raises fresh concerns about the risk of animal pathogens infecting people.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over ...

The estimated cumulative Ebola Virus Disease incidence rate for health workers was reported to range from about 30 to 44 per 1000 persons depending on job title, compared with the non-health worker ...

Introduction. We are now living through the largest and most sustained Ebola epidemic that we have ever known and the projections suggest that things will get a lot worse before they get better.1 It ...

Introduction There has been no systematic comparison of how the policy response to past infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics was funded. This study aims to collate and analyse funding for the ...

Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses, members of the filovirus family, are zoonotic pathogens that cause severe disease in people, as highlighted by the latest Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.