By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) are contributing to the development of a new vaccine designed to provide broad protection ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

A global consortium led by Adaptvac ApS aims to design and test a new vaccine that could offer broad protection against several filoviruses, including Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg ...

Ebola and Marburg viruses, members of the Filoviridae family, have been the cause of deadly outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic disease in humans (1 – 4). Filoviruses possess a nonsegmented, ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Some stood just meters from a known Marburg virus reservoir. Importantly, the Uganda Wildlife Authority has built a sanctioned viewing platform about 35 meters from the cave.

The sample was taken on June 13. So far, there are no cases in humans. While this is early to detect West Nile virus, experts cautioned that this does not necessarily foretell a bad mosquito season.

The virus that commonly causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infection to boost its own growth, which scientists could take advantage of to treat severe cases.

Trump’s new COVID-19 website features five arguments supporting the lab. Among them was the explanation that Wuhan – the Chinese city where the virus first began spreading – is home to a ...

More information: Herpes simplex virus type 1 reshapes host chromatin architecture via transcription machinery hijacking, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60534-6 ...