The highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1), otherwise known as bird flu, has killed millions of birds and unknown num...

The UN health agency has for weeks voiced concern about the name of the disease that emerged onto the global stage in May. Experts warn the...

India recorded the fourth case of Monkeypox, a virus that belongs to the family of smallpox.

Monkeypox is a virus that originates in wild animals like rodents and primates, and occasionally jumps to people. Most human cases have bee...

What exactly is a pan-coronavirus vaccine? The term has become a catchall for both vaccines that could protect against any current and futu...

Most scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorise i...

Last month, Worobey published a COVID-19 timeline linking the first known human case to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China...

Now, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of ...

Although many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences of the transplant, which involved a brain-dead patient follo...

'As someone who has had a decent amount of luck in the timing space – emphasis on the word “luck” – I am both fascinated and horrified by h...

China’s crackdown in 2003 on wildlife markets ended after Sars exited. History is repeating itself, this time while the Covid-19 pandemic i...

Another 35 people had been reported missing and three firefighters had been injured.

Embrace the biodiversity and creatures that call the wilderness their home.

New York, Sep 12 (IANS) Our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats as they mastered the task of leaping through the trees, a 52-milli...

It’s an incident right out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: after an argument with his family, a 16-year-old jumps an airport fence in San J...

And the best time to visit is between September and March - for bird-watching and tiger sighting - and between April and June for elephants...