Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Saturday that a coronavirus lab leak could still be considered a "natural occurrence" if the definition of lab leak meant that someone was infected in the wild and went "into a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that “Rousettus aegyptiacus bats are considered natural hosts for Marburg virus.” (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. By Julian E. Barnes ...

Decades of research have showed scientists what mutations to watch for in the H5N1 virus. The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could ...