Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Kazuaki Miyagishima, virus-containing materials with insufficient levels of bio-security The UN's food agency FAO and the OIE (Animal health organization) called on countries on to comply with a ...

Although rinderpest has been successfully eradicated ... the monkey morbilliviruses can use the same cell receptor as the measles virus, indicating a potential risk of transmission to humans.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has since then declared only two viruses to have been officially eradicated thus far; variola virus (VARV), which causes smallpox, and rinderpest virus (RPV ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020 ...