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Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...
Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...
(Web Desk) - Researchers have identified 20 new viruses, 2 of which are closely related to deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, in the kidneys of bats in southwestern China. Nipah and Hendra circulate in ...
Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over into livestock or even humans.
While the Marburg virus does not need an intermediate host en route to infecting humans, other novel viruses could follow such a path of first passing from bat to predator where it mutates into a ...
Chinese scientists have raised concerns over 20 never-seen-before viruses found in the kidneys of bats mostly found in the Yunnan province of the country. According to researchers, the viruses—closely ...
In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...
How does Marburg virus spread between species? Young Ugandan scientist's photos give important clues by Alexander Richard Braczkowski, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...
Marburg virus articles from across Nature Portfolio Marburg virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Filoviridae, which also includes the Ebolavirus genus, and causes a rare and ...
Scientists have discovered a stealthy mechanism that cytomegalovirus (CMV)—the leading infectious cause of birth defects in ...