Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...

Henipaviruses can infect many animals, including bats, horses, monkeys, dogs, cats and even rodents. This means they are more ...

Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of ...

The Camp Hill virus is from the same family as the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, which are some of the most deadly active ...

Subscribe for FREE “Another example is Nipah virus which has recorded fatality rates between 40 and 75 per cent in outbreaks in South-East Asia, including in Malaysia and Bangladesh. “The discovery of ...

The first in-humans clinical trial of a vaccine candidate to protect against the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) has started. The investigational vaccine ─ designated ChAdOx1 NipahB ─ has been developed at ...

Nipah virus (NiV), has shown itself to be an emerging zoonotic virus which may yet have severe human health implications. It has attracted attention due to its high fatality rates and growing ...

How Canberra’s strata properties are managed will come under the scrutiny of a Legislative Assembly inquiry that could shape the role of a promised Strata Commissioner and new laws to govern the ...

Scientists may be able to develop a vaccine which offers lifelong protection against Nipah virus, one of the world’s deadliest known pathogens, new research suggests. Since the virus – which ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical component of the Nipah virus, a highly lethal bat-borne pathogen that has ...