Preexisting immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus provided near-complete protection against severe H5N1 disease and ...

Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other ...

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of 94.5–99.5% when comparing multiple samples from the same animal. The technique ...

For the second time, Pepper, a Florida cat, has helped identify a little-known virus, this time by bringing a dead shrew to ...

Understanding the complex interplay between viruses and their hosts is crucial for dissecting the mechanisms that underlie viral infectious diseases. With ...

A new approach to analysis traced the viral DNA across evolution to identify its positions in our genome and understand its ...