Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Potential organ donors are screened for viruses, bacteria and other infections, but rabies isn’t usually among those tests.

New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for cutting-edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C ...

NIH has launched a human trial for LASSARAB, a dual-purpose vaccine targeting Lassa fever and rabies. Early animal studies ...

A local Bucks County adult tested positive for measles after returning from a trip to Texas, health officials said.

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The ...

Healthy pigs at ILRI's Clinical Research Facility. Image courtesy ILRI. An electron micrograph of an African swine fever virus particle ...

The viruses that pose the biggest risk to public health have been revealed. Among the viral pathogen families classed as high ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the last confirmed measles death in the United States was in 2015.

New research reveals that Epstein-Barr virus reactivation, triggered by COVID, may cause MIS-C in children. MIS-C is a severe inflammatory condition that can develop in children weeks after a COVID ...

A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun ...