Researchers have identified Camp Hill virus, a type of henipavirus, in shrews in US state of Alabama. This virus, related to the deadly Nipah virus, raises concerns about human transmission and ...

A deadly virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family has been detected by researchers in North America. Why is this virus dangerous and could it cause a global outbreak?

The discovery of Hendra foreshadowed three decades of emerging infectious diseases dominated by bat-borne zoonotic viruses – ...

One of the vectors of transmission is the fruit bat, considered the natural host of two of the known Henipaviruses: Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV). The World Health Organization (WHO ...