Learn more about the diseases that live in certain animals and if they can be transferred to humans.

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins—influenza D virus and canine coronavirus—have so far been quietly flying under the ...

You know that deadly viruses can wreak havoc on humans and animals—but did you know that some viruses can actually infect ...

The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

Five confirmed Nipah virus cases in West Bengal have triggered a high alert as the infection is extremely lethal, spreads ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys, ...

Cow udders may provide a hotspot for bird flu and human flu viruses to mingle. The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

Amid an outbreak of avian influenza, aka bird flu, that has spread to cows in nine states and one person in Texas, federal regulators have detected traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized milk.

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...