The Chinese CDC said a Beijing-based researcher, 53, became ill after dissecting two monkeys while studying non-human primate breeding.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanford University researchers recently added the monkeypox virus to their wastewater monitoring work. They have found confirmation of the virus at almost every site. Researchers are once again ...

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 ...

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 ...