Step into one of Australia's few biosafety level 4 facilities, where scientists handle highly transmissible and potentially ...

A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach, which ...

A brand new virus, a previously unknown type of henipavirus called Salt Gully virus, has been detected in bats that is related to two diseases the World ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A virus that is very similar to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses has been discovered in fruit bats in Australia and researchers are hoping it can help them find ways to fight ...

Researchers have identified new viruses, bacteria and parasites among bats in orchards in China's south-west — with two of ...

Hundreds of vials containing live viruses have gone missing from a laboratory in Australia, sparking an investigation. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced today that 323 samples of live ...

A research facility in Australia is in hot water over losing track of its viruses. Government officials recently confirmed a “major breach” at the state-run Public Health Virology Laboratory in ...

Key points Australian researchers have discovered a new bat-borne virus, Salt Gully virus, during routine wildlife surveillance in Queensland. The ...

At 4:30 on a chilly morning in Australia, headlights burned through a dark forest in central Woodford, a small rural town 50 miles north of Brisbane, Queensland. Hundreds of flying foxes—magnificent ...

A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada, as far south ...