Tamika Lunn went to Kenya looking for bats. Her task, as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of U of A biologist Kristian ...

Officials suspect wild migrating birds are likely to blame for the first known infection of a flock in Hawaii, which had been the last state in the country with no reported cases in poultry or wild ...

Multiple animals have died in Spokane County from different contagious diseases in recent months, stated agencies.

The tree disease that exploded in Bay Area forests three decades ago ... Once deemed the “Godzilla fungus,” the pathogen is believed to have come from ornamental plants shipped from southeast Asia to ...

Native plants and non-native crops do not fare well in proximity to one another, attracting pests that spread diseases in both directions, according to two new UC Riverside studies. “We have changed ...

The state confirmed Friday that highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in a backyard flock of various birds in ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble holds a news conference Thursday to discuss the recent detection of avian influenza virus in a wastewater sample from ...

Symptoms of avian influenza may include fever, cough, sore throat and conjunctivitis. Antiviral flu treatment is recommended ...

What’s more, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is currently the only approved method of diagnosing mpox. It is expensive, ...

Born from the COVID-19 pandemic, a viral-agnostic approach blends sequencing research and public health to get ahead of bird ...

Ten years ago, a mysterious new disease was found sweeping through Hawaii’s native ‘ohi‘a forests, killing off the foundation ...

opening new possibilities for the treatment and detection of diseases. A team of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages – viruses that eat bacteria – made a remarkable discovery ...