The Nipah virus is not very contagious, an expert said, adding that direct human transmission is rare and no instances of the virus spreading through...

A groundbreaking genetic study in Kerala has identified a more aggressive Mpox variant, Clade Ib, linked to international travel and ongoing...

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis rejected the mass vaccination of animals in a government meeting on Tuesday in which the country’s...

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis rejected the mass vaccination of animals in a government meeting on Tuesday in which the country’s...

TUESDAY, Jan. 27, 2026 — Health officials across parts of Asia are stepping up disease checks after several people in India were diagnosed with...

TUESDAY, Jan. 27, 2026 — Health officials across parts of Asia are stepping up disease checks after several people in India were diagnosed with...

Scientists from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) have contributed to an...

Highly contagious virus, which spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccine

The present outbreak of the Nipah virus infection in West Bengal, India, is the latest of a series of flare-ups of the frequently fatal,...

The present outbreak of the Nipah virus infection in West Bengal, India, is the latest of a series of flare-ups of the frequently fatal,...