How do viruses cross into humans in the first place? In a variety of ways: through people breathing in the exhaled breath of sick animals, or through skin-to-skin contact, or from blood contact ...

A new bat organoid platform has been used to study zoonotic viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and flu, revealing more about viral ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans When the pandemic began last year, scientists went looking for the origins of the coronavirus.

A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human ...

These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans. While there's no evidence they've crossed into people yet, the potential is there - and that ...

Yet today, intensive farms and wet markets still operate unchecked - a ticking time bomb for the next global health crisis. The evidence is clear: when animals suffer, humans suffer.

In contrast, the evidence-based conclusion that the COVID pandemic most likely began with a virus jumping from animals to humans highlights the very real risk we increasingly face.

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death ...

A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.