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The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Much Less Familiar to Science

The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.

Your New Medical Problem: Where Are All These New Diseases Coming From?

With the latest outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship, many people have been left wondering where all these new diseases are coming from. After...

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts

Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases, ex...

As wildlife trade expands, so do pathways for disease spillover to humans

Pandemics and novel diseases are perennial threats to human survival. People, wildlife and livestock carry a wide range of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Close contact cre...

Researchers rush to understand deadly new disease

An unidentified disease in salamanders rings alarm bells The post Researchers rush to understand deadly new disease appeared first on The Wildlife Society.

Are We Pandemic Ready?

Hantavirus and Ebola are reminders that outbreaks are inevitable, and that the world must work together to contain them and prevent the next pandemic.

The Ebola emergency shines a light on the urgent need for new vaccines

A little-known strain of Ebola virus is behind an ongoing health emergency, prompting researchers to call for the acceleration of vaccine candidates against such infections

Food Safety Five Ep. 31: Rare, Unusual, and Emerging Foodborne Pathogens of Growing Concern

This episode of Food Safety Five discusses several foodborne pathogens that have been recently highlighted by researchers due to their unusual nature, emergence, and increasing pub...

Silent spread of rare and deadly Ebola strain exposes surveillance gaps

A rare Ebola outbreak that may have circulated undetected in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo for several weeks has exposed the difficulty of detecting deadly viruses in r...

Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our 'dangerous' times — WHO

GENEVA, Switzerland — The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are only the latest crises in “dangerous and divisive” times, the World Health Organization chief said Monday. Openi...

Growing health crisis crosses borders as cases surge, global response intensifies

A growing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus has infected at least 134 people and killed 18 across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to the Worl...

Measures must be taken now to prevent pandemics at the source, says epidemiologist

“[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, we’re losing rainforest … these are all i...

From pet stores to pandemics—how wildlife trade helps diseases jump to humans

New research shows the global wildlife trade is rapidly accelerating the spread of animal pathogens that can jump to humans

Ebola, hantavirus show world's risk preparedness lagging: Expert

The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks show that while the response to declared public health crises has improved, awareness of pandemic risks still lags, a leading pandemic exp...

Q & A with Dr. Wohl: How global health changes could impact Ebola response

As the world has waited with bated breath to see if the small outbreak of the hantavirus aboard a cruise ship would multiply and spread beyond borders — another infectious disease...

The Next Pandemic Will Come From a Conflict Zone

The latest Ebola outbreak underscores a central flaw with the global preparedness model.

EPA Activates Emergency Viral Pathogen Guidance for Hantavirus

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has activated its Emerging Viral Pathogen (EVP) Guidance for Antimicrobial Pesticides (Guidance) in response to hantavirus, which had...

Ebola virus: Big deal, little deal, or no deal?

I recently devoted a post to mocking the media storm around hantavirus. As I assured y'all, it is fading away without further consequence. That does not mean, however, that we shou...

Could hantavirus be the new emerging pathogen in Kerala?

Presence of antibodies against the virus in blood samples was reported in the State in 1999 itself and one probable case of the virus-induced ‘hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome...

Ebola outbreak draws attention to longstanding virus spillover risks in western Uganda

KAMPALA — In the hills and trading centers of western Uganda, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities are racing to limit the spread of Bundibugyo ebolavirus, a rar...

WHO chief calls for urgent Ebola action and pandemic preparedness

The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks demonstrate that the world is still vulnerable to rapidly spreading infectious diseases, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health...

Wildlife Trade Tied To Higher Risk of Diseases Spreading to Humans

WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2026 — Buying or selling wild animals, whether for food, pets or other uses, may increase the risk of diseases spreading to people, a new study finds.Research...

Scientists race to develop Ebola drugs as outbreak surges

Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

WHO annual meet starts amid Ebola, hantavirus outbreaks