China’s insatiable appetite for exotic and laboratory-treated animals has repeatedly served as the breeding ground for ...

State officials say the highly pathogenic avian influenza – more commonly known as bird flu – is widespread in much of the ...

Zhang Zhan travelled to the city of Wuhan to cover the very beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. Reporters Without Borders ...

An image that is spreading widely online claims that Moderna had created its COVID-19 vaccine two years before the pandemic ...

Over the course of two decades, China has built a public health aid program for the world, turbocharged by the pandemic. As ...

China has not declared a "state of emergency" over the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) after infections increased toward the end ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies ...

Roughly 44% of China's crude imports from the U.S. were lighter density, lower-sulfur types, like West Texas Intermediate ...

Following the death of Barbie Hsu (Hsu Shiyuan, also known as Big S), a renowned Taiwan-born actress and TV host, which was ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus first emerged in southern China in 1996 and caused large outbreaks in poultry in Hong Kong in 1997. The outbreak was controlled but not eradicated and resurfaced in 2003.

Researchers found first henipavirus strain in North America. What you need to know about new virus in wild animals living in ...