SCIENTISTS have discovered a new bat virus that they fear is already spreading in humans. The infection was spotted in people ...

Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah ...

Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

Scientists have identified a new strange virus that is infecting humans that seems like Nipah but is different than the specific type.A team of researchers in Bangladesh has identified a ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

Airport thermometers, health questionnaires and masked officials are back in parts of Asia as a deadly bat-borne virus ...

Scientists have identified a previously overlooked bat-borne virus infecting humans in Bangladesh, raising concerns that ...

A bat-borne, brain-swelling disease with 'pandemic potential' has put the world on high alert. Here's everything you need to know about Nipah virus.

Bangladeshi researchers have uncovered an emerging bat-borne virus in archived throat swabs and viral cultures from five ...

Bats, critical reservoirs of viruses with significant cross-species spillover risks, have long been understudied in the ...

The bat-borne Nipah virus has been described as one of the World Health Organisation's top 10 priority diseases. Two experts ...

The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which was named after the village in ...