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As the world focuses on the deadly H5N1 bird flu, another avian influenza virus—H9N2—is quietly gaining new abilities. Once considered a mild strain limited to birds, H9N2 is showing signs…
Bats are natural reservoirs for several highly pathogenic viruses, including coronaviruses related to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), as well as Marburg and Nipah…
A research conducted at Pennsylvania State University in the United States suggests that under certain conditions, male mosquitoes may also exhibit a blood-sucking behavior similar to their female counterparts. This…
The Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda last month has resulted in 63 confirmed cases and 15 deaths. Preliminary genomic evidence suggests that this outbreak originated from a pathogen jumping from…
