A thief who broke into a zoo in Tasmania, Australia, may now be infected with a deadly monkey virus. A city official in Launceston said the intruder broke into a monkey enclosure in a city park on ...

Hong Kong health officials reported a case of human B virus in a 37-year-old, the first ever reported in the region. Reading time 2 minutes A Hong Kong man’s scrape with monkeys led to him contract a ...

NEW YORK – Doctors may one day be able to control a patient’s HIV infection in a new way: injecting swarms of germ-fighting antibodies, two new studies suggest. In monkeys, that strategy sharply ...

A 37-year-old man is fighting for his life in an intensive care unit in Hong Kong after being wounded by monkeys during a recent park visit and contracting a rare and deadly virus spread by primates.

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is 'poised for spillover' to humans, according to new research. An ...

According to the WHO, the monkeypox virus or MPV, was first detected in 1958 in a monkey used in a Denmark research lab. In 1970, the first human case, a 9-month-old boy, was found in the Democratic ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Monkey B virus (BV) infection in humans and other macaque species has a mortality rate of approximately 80%. Because BV infects humans ...

WASHINGTON -- The ancestry of the virus that caused the AIDS epidemic has been traced to two strains of a virus found in monkeys in Africa. The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when the apes ...

Researchers have identified monkey antibodies that are effective against numerous Covid variants and other coronaviruses, according to research published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, a ...

The deadly human ebola virus has been found in three of seven dead laboratory monkeys checked so far out of a larger shipment to a Virginia research firm from the Philippines, federal health officials ...

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is “poised for spillover” to humans, according to new University of ...