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Two Novel Henipaviruses Detected in Fruit bats in China 

The henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) are known to cause fatal diseases in humans. In 2022, Langya henipavirus (LayV), a novel henipavirus was identified in Eastern...

COVID-19 in 2025  

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic spanning over three years claimed millions of lives worldwide and caused immense misery to the humanity. Rapid developments of vaccines...

Pandemic Potential of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) Outbreaks 

There are reports of outbreaks of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection in many parts of the world. In the backdrop of recent COVID-19 pandemic, hMPV...

Genital Herpes Infection Affects Over 800 million people  

A recent study has estimated disease frequency of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections and genital ulcer disease (GUD). The estimates suggest that about 846...

Monkeypox (Mpox) Vaccines: WHO initiates EUL procedure  

In view of serious and growing outbreak of monkeypox (Mpox) disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has now spread outside the...

Virulent Strain of Monkeypox (MPXV) Spread Through Sexual Contact  

An investigation of the rapid monkeypox (MPXV) outbreak that emerged in October 2023 in the Kamituga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants given new names 

On 08 August 2022, the expert group of WHO arrived at consensus on nomenclature of known and new monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants or clades....

The Novel Langya virus (LayV) identified in China  

Two henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and the Nipah virus (NiV) are already known to cause fatal disease in humans. Now, a novel henipavirus has...

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