A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is causing serious vision ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The virus, PelV-1 uses its tail to attach to its intended victim while ...

The Atlantic Forest, extending along Brazil’s eastern coast, was once among the most biodiverse ecosystems globally.

You know that deadly viruses can wreak havoc on humans and animals—but did you know that some viruses can actually infect ...

In 2019, a big outbreak of avian influenza struck Namibia’s endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) population. The IAEA-FAO’s sequencing service was able to help characterize the outbreak as ...

There’s been a new interest in diseases and viruses lately thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people being a little more wary of germs than they were before 2020. Now, the World Health Organization ...

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) (Getty) Health officials in Britain have published a first-of-its-kind ...

Beyond both being viruses, HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to have a lot in common. HIV-1 is a retrovirus that integrates ...