Leading scientists have issued an urgent warning that two little-known animal viruses could 'easily' spark the next pandemic if they jump to humans. The alert comes as the US battles a severe winter ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

An outbreak of hantavirus has killed three on a cruise ship. Should you be worried? What to know about the Andes strain, how the virus spreads and symptoms.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

Virologists and public health specialists have warned about the pandemic threat for years. H5N1, a problem in chickens for decades, first infected humans in 1997, in an outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

The world is full of animal viruses, and we're pretty sure that one of them will cause the next pandemic. To prevent pandemics, we need to predict which of the vast number of animal viruses are most ...

An ecologist explains why the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, while serious, will not become the next pandemic. The biology of Andes virus limits large-scale spread.

Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community. So it’s understandable people are concerned that passengers from the MV Hondius need to be ...

Experts consulted by Newsweek say hantavirus is unlikely to spark a pandemic because it transmits poorly between people.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...