WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from ...
Scientists say climate change and globalization have driven the spread of zoonotic disease. Zoonotic diseases are spread from animals to humans, or from humans to animals. Coronaviruses, ebola, and ...
Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...
Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral genomes. Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we ...
Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses. By Carl Zimmer Colin Carlson, a biologist at ...
In February 2021, seven Russian poultry-farm workers were reported to have been infected with H5N8 avian influenza. This subtype of bird flu had never been known to infect people before, and the virus ...
Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral genomes by UCL researchers. For the new paper published in Nature Ecology & ...