Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Identifying and prioritizing the many unknown viruses circulating in animals is an important part of modeling future pandemic risk ...

Most animal viruses never become pandemics because they must overcome multiple barriers, including receptor mismatch, immune ...

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have received a grant to unlock how animals naturally fight off viral infections.

Researchers detected Usutu virus RNA in nine of 818 wild carnivores sampled across the Netherlands, while no animals tested ...

Infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about two pathogens in animals that have the potential to trigger the next major health crisis. Researchers warn that influenza D and canine ...

A virus that has long circulated among shrimp and fish now appears to have crossed into humans, causing a persistent inflammatory eye condition that can raise pressure inside the eye and threaten ...

When a virus that once seemed confined to animals starts turning up in both people and their pets, the line between household safety and global health threat suddenly looks thin. Across laboratories ...

Scientists found that sea anemones battle viruses with an unexpected immune strategy, revealing that evolution may have ...

There's an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can't see them, bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms are as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe.