Allen Cheng receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, including for public health surveillance systems. He has been ...

Viruses are abundant and diverse across Antarctic sea ice, surface waters, and deep ocean habitats, with many unique polar populations. They employ both lytic and lysogenic strategies, with community ...

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, ...

Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...

Share on Pinterest Despite the recent outbreak in India, health experts suggest the Nipah virus is an unlikely candidate for a global pandemic. Image credit: CharlesGibson/Getty Images Two new cases ...