The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP Thursday.

Last year’s outbreaks were the largest in a decade, fueled by an emerging variant of the highly contagious, hard-to-kill ...

Vaccinia (VACV) and Cowpox (CPXV) viruses belong to the Poxviridae family, genus Orthopoxvirus. Poxviruses are linear double-stranded DNA viruses that encode more than 200 genes, most of them ...

West Nile Virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental U.S., spreading from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites. While most infected people show no symptoms, about ...

Over the past year, some vaccine recommendations have changed. Respiratory virus season is upon the United States as the cold weather months set in, meaning cases of COVID-19, influenza and RSV are ...

Another international break is in the history books and that can mean only one thing: more injuries for Barcelona. La Blaugrana have once again succumbed to the ‘FIFA Virus’, a term coined to describe ...

China has rolled out drastic containment measures as the mosquito-borne 'chikungunya virus' spreads rapidly, while the US has confirmed its first local case in six years. So what is it and what are ...

A rare case of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus more commonly found in South America, has been confirmed in the New York City suburbs – the first mainland U.S. transmission in a decade. Health ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...