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 ...
Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry ...
Beginning in early August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been conducting its ...
In 2021, Bucknell University biology professors DeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute ...
Researchers have discovered a new immune pathway in chickens that viruses — such as those that tend to infect birds, ...
The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL) at Washington State University was awarded more than $475,000 in Farm Bill funding ...
New research from the US has shown that white-tailed deer are being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...
The USAID Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens - Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) project, will build scientific capacity in partner ...
Partner agencies and national guard personnel are working collectively to counter the risk of rabies in urban raccoon populations by ...
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded $3.2 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
The novel infectious virus, named Yezo virus and transmitted by tick bites, causes a disease characterized by fever and a ...
The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is ...
Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a ...
Infectious disease experts at Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) and the University of Alberta have confirmed that histoplasmosis - a fungal ...
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
Pandemics past and present have been caused when pathogens – germs that cause disease – move between animals and humans, ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of ...
In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in ...
New research shows pigs could serve as amplifying hosts for Reston ebolavirus. Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock ...
U.S. Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, ...