A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus has so far infected people in Shandong and Henan provinces of China, official media here reported on Tuesday. The new type of Henipavirus (also named Langya h...

Mahesh Narayanan’s 2020 mystery thriller C U Soon was shot during the first lockdown caused by the outbreak of Covid-19. This is a ‘computer-screen film’, which is a format of visual...

A task force on monkeypox has been constituted to closely monitor the emerging situation in the country and decide on response initiatives to tackle the spread of the disease, official sources said on...

The bat virus at the centre of Eloit’s experiments came to light on an expedition to limestone caves in northern Laos in the summer of 2020. A team of Laotian and French researchers caught bats ...

Monkeypox can spread from close physical contact regardless of sexual orientation or race and scapegoating or demonising the entire LGBTQ community as 'spreaders' will be a repeat of the mista...

More than 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported so far, with the highest number of infections now being recorded in Europe and the Americas. Brazil reported the first monkeypox-related&nb...

Noida-based Priyanka was convinced that she had contracted monkeypox after she discovered red bumps and spots on her leg. The 28-year-old marketing executive said within a day, other parts of her bod...

India has reported four cases of monkeypox so far - three from Kerala and one from Delhi - the latest being that of a 34-year-old man in the national capital with no history of foreign travel testing ...

According to the WHO, the most recent case of the Marburg virus was detected in Ghana's southern Ashanti region."Health authorities have responded swiftly, getting a head start preparing for ...

The Indian Institute of Science has established a Viral Genome Sequencing Lab at its Centre for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR) here. The lab will focus on studies related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus,...