UVA infectious disease expert Dr. William Petri explains how the virus spreads and why health officials are on high alert.

When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, the world mourned the loss of a scientist who helped rid humanity of a virus that had plagued the Earth for thousands of years.

The agency added that it did not recommend travel or trade curbs after two infections of the deadly virus were reported by ...

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, ...

In a study published in Nature on January 28, a research team led by Eric H. Xu (Xu Huaqiang) from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Ma Xiong from ...

New evidence suggests that mpox may be circulating quietly among healthy Nigerians, with some infections occurring without ...

The field of molecular epidemiology has brought a transformative perspective to the study of viral infections by integrating molecular data and phylogenetic ...