Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

TOKYO -- A Nipah virus vaccine candidate developed at the University of Tokyo is set to start clinical trials in Belgium in April.

Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–Φ2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new ...

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in West Bengal, India, has raised concerns in Asia, leading some countries to increase airport screening. Five cases of the virus, first identified in 1999 after ...

A deadly Nipah virus has been reported in India, involving two cases among nurses and prompting increased passenger screenings at airports to contain possible outbreaks and prevent spreading beyond ...

Virus primarily spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccine Airports across Asia have been put on high alert after India confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah ...

An outbreak of the highly fatal Nipah virus in India’s eastern state of West Bengal has sparked widespread attention and public concern in China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday when millions will ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal interactions in ways that could help us treat drug-resistant infections.

TOKYO, January 31. /TASS/. The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo will launch the first stage of human trials of a vaccine for the Nipah virus in April, the ...

Two people in India’s West Bengal contracted the infection in December last year, with health officials there tracing almost 200 close contacts. None has tested positive. Multiple airports across Asia ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way they do on Earth. In microgravity, infections still occurred, but both ...