Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 30, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

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 ...

Deadly and silent at first, the Nipah virus spreads rapidly with high mortality. Here's what experts want you to know.

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 ...

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 ...

Northwestern University researchers have successfully coaxed a deadly pathogen to destroy itself from the inside out. In a new study, researchers modified DNA from a bacteriophage or "phage," a type ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...