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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities. At the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California-Davis last ...

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 ...

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 ...