Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

Thermal scanning at ports of entry is not as effective in keeping rare deadly pathogens out as one may hope, says Hsu Li Yang from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

A rise in tuberculosis cases in Malaysia triggered social media posts falsely claiming that the bacteria responsible for the disease were deliberately inserted into Pfizer's Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine ...

Young infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) often become much sicker compared to those infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

The Ministry of Health informed that the Nipah virus has an incubation period of four to 14 days, during which symptoms may ...

New San Mateo County data from 2025 shows a significant jump in the number of bats that tested positive for rabies after two ...

U of A researcher Kristian Forbes has joined the ZOOSURY project with the University of Helsinki to grow a better understanding of how bats transmit diseases to humans in Africa.

Highly organized LNPs may resist releasing their cargo due to interactions between the positively-charged lipids and negatively-charged RNA.

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.