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

One of the Maryland transplant patients showed evidence of a pig virus in the transplanted heart, highlighting concerns that so-called zoonotic viruses could transfer along with the transplant.

Zheng-Li Shi, a virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and her colleagues report today (April 4) in Nature that the virus, named swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV), ...

African swine fever virus is transmitted by ticks of the genus Ornithodoros to common warthogs (Phacochoerus spp.) when they feed on the wild animals’ blood. Domestic pigs (Sus scofra domesticus) can ...

The latest threat comes from African swine fever, a highly contagious virus with no known cure, and a near zero survival rate for infected pigs. The good news is that the disease is not harmful to ...

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

In The Sims, you can have your very own guinea pig pet. The adorable furry creature will live happily in his cage on any ...

No quarantine or movement restrictions will be put in place because Japanese encephalitis virus is considered established in ...