Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic ...

Study shows zoonotic viruses like SARS-CoV-2 can transmit between humans without prior adaptation, unlike lab-passaged viruses.

When a virus that once seemed confined to animals starts turning up in both people and their pets, the line between household safety and global health threat suddenly looks thin. Across laboratories ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

The first fatality from Alaskapox, a type of orthopoxvirus, has been reported on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. State officials released a bulletin on Feb. 9 detailing that an elderly man contracted ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

A new study has revealed a surprising dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the virus responsible for the global crisis, SARS-CoV-2, now detected "in a large suite of common backyard animals." ...

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