Singapore will ease public health measures against the Nipah virus from Feb 23, with no cases reported in the country to date ...

New San Mateo County data from 2025 shows a significant jump in the number of bats that tested positive for rabies after two years without finding any cases. All of the positive tests occurred in the ...

St.  Vincent and the Grenadines says it is closely monitoring reports of Nipah Virus (NiV) cases globally,  even as the ...

U of A researcher Kristian Forbes has joined the ZOOSURY project with the University of Helsinki to grow a better understanding of how bats transmit diseases to humans in Africa.

Three old and altered images of people in hazmat suits burying bodies en masse have been used misleadingly to illustrate online posts about cases of the deadly Nipah virus in India’s eastern state of ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

The emergence of a new bat-borne virus in South Asia may be a clarion call for robust public health measures, but it also highlights a narrative often sidelined by mainstream media: the need for ...

Kenya has received 21,000 starter doses for an initial roll-out across 15 priority counties selected based on their HIV ...

While the issue affects only about 2.5 percent of doses sold nationwide, Wisconsin officials say dogs that received that lot will not be recognized as fully vaccinated.

In late January 2026, Indian authorities confirmed two new Nipah virus cases in West Bengal state. Following the news, a video circulated on social media in Africa purportedly showing Uganda’s health ...

Department officials collected the bat for testing Feb. 4 and notified Strafford Health Officer Stephen Marx a couple of days later.

ICMR Director General Dr Rajiv Bahl praised the West Bengal government’s response to the recent Nipah virus case, stating that the state has worked effectively in coordination with the Centre to ...