Many pathogenic viruses are endemic among human populations and can cause a broad variety of diseases, some potentially leading to devastating pandemics. How virus populations maintain diversity and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that dairy cows in nine states have been infected with bird flu in 2024. U.S. Department of Agriculture, CC BY Colorado has highly pathogenic avian ...

The rise of antibiotic resistance has renewed interest in bacteriophages as therapeutic alternatives. However, co-evolution of phage and bacteria will naturally give rise to phage-resistant pathogens, ...

Sugarcane Mosaic Virus is an emerging problem for our St. Augustine lawns in Florida. Viruses are some of the smallest and ...

A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) offers insights into cell death regulation by viruses like SARS-CoV-2, and how bats and humans respond differently to tricks that ...

The new strain was found in Noxubee County, Miss. All of the roughly 46,000 birds either died or were euthanized after the infection spread. In another development, researchers reported that exposure ...

The bird flu spreading through cattle in the United States is an “enormous concern” the chief scientist of the World Health Organization said Thursday as he called for more tracking and preparation ...

in March a farm worker who reported no contact with sick or dead birds, but who was in contact with dairy cattle, began showing symptoms in the eye and samples were collected by the regional health ...

Live poultry markets (LPMs) play a key role in reassorting and spreading avian influenza viruses (AIVs). In 2018, four strains of H5N2 AIVs were isolated from domestic ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) ...

New data on the persistence of avian influenza viruses in the environment has allowed a team of University of Georgia researchers to create the first model that takes into account both direct and ...