Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organization ...

Any outbreak involving a virus with no cure deserves attention. We saw with COVID 19 how fast a disease can move once the ...

Nipah virus cases in West Bengal raise concern. Know how the virus spreads from bats to humans, key symptoms, risks, and ...

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, ...

Tis the season for cooler temps, shorter days and cozy nights by the fire. Unfortunately, this time of year also marks the ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. By reconstructing the early spread of COVID-19 and pandemic influenza, researchers reveal why ...

Several regional countries have stepped up health screening after Indian authorities reported five cases of a deadly, incurable virus near one of the country's largest cities, prompting efforts to ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

The mpox virus appears to be circulating silently in parts of Nigeria, in many cases without the symptoms typically ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

As winter melts away, the Aedes mosquito population rises with the temperature. When these mosquitoes puncture host skin to feed with their needle-like probosces, they often transmit pathogens like ...