Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats ...

When Linsey Marr looks back at the beginning of 2020, what strikes her is how few people in the world really understood how viruses can travel through the air. "In the past year, we've come farther in ...

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, meaning the highly infectious virus is considered endemic once again in the ...

New CDC research suggests the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected a Michigan dairy farmworker can be transmitted through the air. The revelation, the study's authors wrote, suggests "an ongoing ...

Earlier this summer, reports from China noted that thousands of citizens tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. Most of the cases in early August were concentrated in the southern ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a severe haemorrhagic fever virus transmitted by tick to animal and humans. Discovered in 2009, the virus is found in South-East Asian ...