Bat Virus Receptor Studies Vital to Predict Spillover Risk
Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry ...
Tag: Zoonotic
2022 Oral Rabies Vaccine Efforts Underway in Eastern United States
Beginning in early August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been conducting its ...
Bucknell Researchers Head to Uganda to Study African Bats’ Immune Response to Ebola Virus
In 2021, Bucknell University biology professors DeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute ...
Discovery of New Avian Immunological Pathway May Lead to Better Poultry Vaccines
Researchers have discovered a new immune pathway in chickens that viruses — such as those that tend to infect birds, ...
WSU Animal Disease Lab Awarded Funding to Improve Early Detection of Outbreaks in Animals
The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL) at Washington State University was awarded more than $475,000 in Farm Bill funding ...
White-Tailed Deer Found to Be Huge Reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
New research from the US has shown that white-tailed deer are being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...
WSU to Lead USAID’s Global Sampling Project for Discovery of Emerging Viral Zoonoses
The USAID Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens - Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) project, will build scientific capacity in partner ...
Vermont Air National Guard Partners with USDA for Rabies Vaccine Study
Partner agencies and national guard personnel are working collectively to counter the risk of rabies in urban raccoon populations by ...
UTHSC Awarded $3.2 Million for Upgrades to Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded $3.2 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
Emerging Infectious Disease Caused By New Nairovirus Identified in Japan
The novel infectious virus, named Yezo virus and transmitted by tick bites, causes a disease characterized by fever and a ...
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 ...
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, ...
