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

Vaccinating more animals against bird flu could help protect public health and keep global trade flowing said the head of the ...

If properly implemented, vaccination limits virus spread, protects animal health, and lowers the risk of human infection. But ...

ZODIAC builds on the experience of VETLAB, a network of veterinary laboratories in Africa and Asia that was originally set up by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the IAEA to combat ...

The WHO recommends vaccination against 12 deadly diseases in childhood, but how long does protection last, and how do they work? Vaccines completely revolutionized public health when they were first ...

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 ...

Founded on January 6, 1925, in response to the devastating Rinderpest pandemic, the Razi Institute has ... versions of the spike protein and tutors the immune system against the virus by producing ...

The detection of Camp Hill virus is significant because it marks the first time a henipavirus has been detected in North America. That's according to the scientists who discovered it, who released ...

and a ten-month-old baby was paralysed in July due to a vaccine-derived variant of the virus. Only two diseases have previously been eradicated globally: smallpox in 1980 and rinderpest – which ...

Once introduced into a ‘free’ area, the virus can infect up to 90% of a herd. It can also kill up to 70% of infected animals. However, the rinderpest virus does not infect humans.” The first reported ...