An international team of virologists, mammalian ecologists and zoologists has uncovered the evolutionary origins of the ...

A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach ...

They performed genome analysis on samples taken from multiple sites, including the lung, heart, liver, kidney, lymph nodes in the chest that initially filter the virus, and the nasal cavity where the ...

Queensland officials reported the incident Monday. According to Health Minister Tim Nicholls, over 300 virus samples have gone missing. The government is now launching an investigation into the ...

Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced today that 323 samples of live viruses—including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus—went missing in 2021 in a "serious breach of ...

At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which ...

EBV is the prototype of γ-1 virus and the ... Like other herpesviruses, HHV-8 is a double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) virus. Its genome is linear, is about 165 kbp in length, and ...

With an update the World Health Organization on November 9 2024 stating that the 42-day countdown to declare the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak over (if there were no news cases), it seems ...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of the human population worldwide and establishes ... In conclusion, the replication of the EBV genome, the production of progeny viruses, and the host’s ...

A genome map shows the healthiest amount of genetic diversity in Queensland and the lowest in Victoria. Researchers from the University of Sydney undertook the task in the wake of the Black Summer ...

The Marburg virus, which causes bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth, can be fatal in up to 90% of those infected Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...