The novel sampler in combination with the novel way to analyze viruses could be useful “to understand how diseases get ...

A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The virus, PelV-1 uses its tail to attach to its intended victim while ...

There’s been a new interest in diseases and viruses lately thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people being a little more wary of germs than they were before 2020. Now, the World Health Organization ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colourised scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) ...

In 2019, a big outbreak of avian influenza struck Namibia’s endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) population. The IAEA-FAO’s sequencing service was able to help characterize the outbreak as ...

Don't feel as if you're out of the loop if you're not up on the terminology of spillover viruses. In fact, one of the doctors we interviewed for this series on spillovers asked, "What is your ...

Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses - including samples of Eastern ...

A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species ...

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products ...

Every season brings a new slate of plant pathogens to our Florida lawns and gardens. Luckily, there are many tactics we can employ to help reduce their impact. Florida generally has a warm, humid ...