India is launching a major study to detect zoonotic diseases in select bird sanctuaries across Sikkim, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. Using t...

A study in Nature reveals that animals farmed for fur, food, or traditional medicine, such as raccoon dogs and minks, harbor numerous virus...

With 800 cases identified in deer, elk, and moose in Wyoming over the past year, experts label it a "slow-moving disaster."

A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal suggests that financial entities investing in companies operating in hotspots for ...

Though Kerala's response to contain the outbreak drew international praise, the quick spread of the virus and its impact on tens of thousan...

The state's surveillance and response capacity notwithstanding, it is now critical to focus on why Kerala has emerged as a hotspot for zoon...

The Wuhan outbreak in China is widely suspected to be a case of zoonotic spill-over that ended up wreaking havoc across the globe.

A spike in adenovirus cases in West Bengal should serve as a warning for the country at large. While the Covid-19 pandemic is in our collec...

"We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better understand the origins of this vi...

The coronavirus NeoCoV, described as a potential threat to humanity by Chinese researchers this week, poses no actual danger in its current...

Antibodies decrease over time - so samples collected now from people infected before or around December 2019 may be harder to examine accur...

The researchers also identified locations that could easily become hot spots with changes in land use. They found that parts of Japan, the ...

A group of leading UK and US scientists, including Indian-origin Cambridge University immunology and infectious disease expert Ravindra Gup...

"More investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic," said the 18 scientists, including Ravindra Gupta, a clinical ...

Scientists have discovered six new coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar -- the first time these viruses have been found anywhere in the world.

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

Wild animals sold in the Huanan Seafood Market are believed to be the source of the novel coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 8...