The First Human Case of Marburg Virus in West Africa Highlights Importance of Quickly Detecting Spillover Events
The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is ...
Tag: Zoonotic
New Initiative to Support Studies of the Bat Immune System
Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a ...
Germ Hunters in Alberta Discover Rare Fungal Disease
Infectious disease experts at Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) and the University of Alberta have confirmed that histoplasmosis - a fungal ...
Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First Cases in Wuhan, China
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
Tracing and Controlling Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
Hepatitis D: How the Virus Made the Jump From Animals to Humans
Pandemics past and present have been caused when pathogens – germs that cause disease – move between animals and humans, ...
Heading Off The Next Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of ...
At Risk of Extinction, Black-Footed Ferrets Get Experimental COVID Vaccine
In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in ...
Human Spillover Potential of Reston Ebolavirus Noted by NIAID Study
New research shows pigs could serve as amplifying hosts for Reston ebolavirus. Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock ...
Funding Announced for Campaign to Counter Chronic Wasting Disease in New York
U.S. Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, ...
One Health Day 2020 – Disease Prevention, Public Health and Global Security in Action
One Health Day, held annually on Nov. 3, is an international campaign to engage as many individuals as possible on ...
Light Pollution May Increase Biting Behaviors of Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
Artificial light abnormally increases mosquito biting behavior at night in a species that typically prefers to bite people during the ...
Five Things You Need to Know About Bats, Disease and Coronavirus
Professor Emma Teeling is co-founder of Bat 1K, an initiative to sequence the genomes of all bat species. She is ...
The ‘One Health’ Concept Must Prevail to Allow Us to Prevent Pandemics
It is both a concept, a strategy, and a goal. “One Health” has gradually established itself in the life sciences, ...
Two New Rubella-Related Viruses Discovered: Ruhugu and Rustrela
Rubella virus, since it was first identified in 1962, has been the only known member of its virus family, Matonaviridae. ...
Avian Flu Outbreak in Seals Illustrates How Viruses Can Adapt to Spread Between Mammals
In 2014, an avian influenza virus caused an outbreak in harbor and gray seals in northern Europe, killing over 10% ...
Where in the World Will the Next Epidemic Start?
Viruses jumping from animals to humans have been the starting point of numerous outbreaks, from Ebola to Zika. Given the ...
A Million Deaths From COVID-19: Experts Consider Key Questions
The pandemic has reached a grim milestone: one million people have now died of COVID-19, according to Worldometers. On January ...
US Funds Animal Disease Lab in Central Luzon
The United States, through the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), has funded an advanced laboratory in Central Luzon, Philippines, in ...
NIAID Establishes New Global Network to Focus on Spillover Potential of Emerging Diseases
The new Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) — comprised of 10 research centers and a coordinating center — is ...
