A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...

Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California’s Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary ...

Objectives The mental health impacts of COVID-19 on frontline healthcare workers have been reported globally; however, there is limited evidence from low-income countries such as Ethiopia. We reviewed ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Doctors in Central Illinois are seeing an increase in respiratory illnesses, with influenza A and B, seasonal coronavirus strains, rhinovirus, enterovirus and RSV among the most common viruses, ...

U of A researcher Kristian Forbes has joined the ZOOSURY project with the University of Helsinki to grow a better understanding of how bats transmit diseases to humans in Africa.

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

In recent weeks, narratives claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic had been planned since 2017 have resurfaced on social media. A number of posts on Facebook and Instagram accuse Bill Gates and the late ...

In the case of Covid19, the events in February 2020 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo – the jewel of the Italian Alps – were the origins of the pandemic. Without their role, Covid19 might have been a ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...