The virus, similar to measles ... and it’s closely related to the measles and rinderpest viruses. “It causes severe illness in the host by attacking multiple body systems, resulting in ...

In the late 1800s, Europeans unintentionally introduced rinderpest, a viral cattle disease, into East Africa. Although the virus was found in European and Asian cows, cattle in Africa had never ...

DU is a Chair of the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research, with no financial benefit from this role; and is a Chair of the FAO/WOAH Rinderpest Joint Advisory Committee, with no financial ...

That power has, so far, eradicated two infectious diseases: smallpox and rinderpest. When it comes to protecting ... A vaccine allows the animal’s body to build antibodies to a specific virus, without ...

Rinderpest, Scrapie, Sheep Pox, Surra, Swine Vesicular Disease, Teschen Disease, Tuberculosis (Bovine), Vesicular Stomatitis, West Nile Virus. Reports of notifiable disease are to APHA (Defra Rural ...

Researchers have discovered the first giant virus in Finland. The specimen demonstrates that such huge viruses are more common in northern regions than previously thought. Viruses are tiny.

Public health officials in California announced three people have died from hantavirus, the virus linked to the February death of Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa. The deaths occurred in the ...

A new respiratory virus is reportedly spreading through Russia, drawing unevidenced conspiracies from Russian state media and social media users that it is the work of a Ukrainian bioweapon.

Residents and health officials are concerned with the detection, especially as the program that found the virus early is at risk of being cut. Three positive samples of mpox, previously known as ...