The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been detected in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently issued Level 2 travel advisories for several countries experiencing outbreaks of chikungunya virus, a lesser-known but potentially ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, meaning it can be spread from animals to humans. It can also be transmitted through contaminated food or directly from human to human.

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital have discovered a previously undescribed virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus appears more frequently in ...

Health authorities across Asia are tightening border controls after a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus in eastern India raised fears of cross-border transmission of one of the world’s deadliest known ...