A highly contagious new COVID variant is spreading across the United States. It's called NB.1.8.1, also known as Nimbus.

A UK hospital study finds infectious MPXV virus lurking on patient room surfaces, raising questions about environmental transmission and the role of cleaning in keeping outbreaks at bay.

KIGALI, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan Minister of Health Sabin Nsanzimana said on Thursday that more than 200 people in the country have been vaccinated against Marburg virus disease. Rwanda started ...

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.

(The Hill) – A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more ...

Health authorities have revealed that the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the illness in the US, potentially making it more transmissible ...

Basal innate immunity with enhanced innate immune activation and response in a bat reservoir of Marburg virus underlies viral tolerance and zoonotic potential. Jennifer Tisoncik-Go Michael Gale Jr ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

Kenya’s first coronavirus patient, Ivy Brenda Cherotich ... “I suspect I may have contracted the virus in London,” she said. Upon return, she said that she coughed for three days.