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 ...

Orthohantaviruses, such as the Puumala virus, are widespread in Europe, causing flu-like illnesses and severe kidney damage in those infected. It is increasingly considered a zoonotic threat.

A global survey of 3,752 health professionals and researchers across 151 countries has identified climate change as a leading driver behind the escalation of infectious disease outbreaks, and ...

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 ...

When we shift from understanding disease to preventing it, the same framework applies. The infectious disease triad can be thought of as a three-legged stool. Remove any one leg, whether pathogen, ...

Don't feel as if you're out of the loop if you're not up on the terminology of spillover viruses. In fact, one of the doctors we interviewed for this series on spillovers asked, "What is your ...

COVID-19 took the world by storm in early 2020, being declared a pandemic in March of that year. While it was the most recent emerging infectious disease, experts anticipate it won’t be the last. Well ...

Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In ...

By Q. Le, R. Main, D. Linhares and G. Trevisan, Iowa State University; H. Naikare, University of Minnesota; F. Matias Ferreyra, Kansas State University; A. Pillatzki, South Dakota State University; M.