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Low booster rates and immune-evading SARS-CoV-2 variants could spell bad news, experts say. 

Nearly 50 million birds have been culled amid efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which continues to ravage the Northern Hemisphere.

The outbreak of the Sudan strain of ebolavirus, which includes eight other suspected cases, is the first to hit Uganda in more than a decade.

Analyses suggest the virus has been silently spreading in nearby counties since May.

Parts of Southeast Asia where human and bat population densities are highest could be infection hotspots, a study finds.

FEMA official Robert Fenton and a deputy are charged with increasing access to tests, vaccines, and treatment.

Two independent groups suggest the suite of recent unexplained hepatitis cases may stem from coinfection with an adeno-associated virus and a helper adeno- or herpesvirus, a duo which may be especially virulent in children with a particular genetic variant.

Preliminary testing indicates that the two people died from the Ebola-like virus, the World Health Organization says.

The longer and farther the virus spreads, the more likely it could become endemic in new areas, says UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin.

Two strains of monkeypox have been detected in the US, suggesting the virus has been circulating in the country for some time, the CDC says.

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

So far this season, tens of millions of birds have died of disease or been culled, driving up prices of eggs, chicken, and turkey meat.

The Scientist spoke with the UK’s chief veterinary officer, Christine Middlemiss, about this winter’s high bird flu prevalence, the effects of the disease, and efforts to combat it.

The pathogen known as swine flu evolved in pigs in Mexico following imports of the livestock from the US and Europe.

Seven years of surveillance and research revealed the complex history of the H1N1 virus that leapt from pigs to humans and sparked the global swine flu outbreak.

Ebola virus was detected in samples from a child who died last week, the World Health Organization and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ministry of Health announce.

Officials say it’s not yet clear whether this case is linked to an outbreak in Guinea earlier this summer.

Surveillance networks set up to detect outbreaks among pets could one day have public health uses too.