Assembling a paramyxovirus. The researchers used several imaging techniques, including x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, to capture a process called viral assembly.

This past week, the National Hockey League was rocked with over a dozen cases of what is now a rare viral illness, the mumps. The virus, which used to infect about 186,000 Americans each year, has ...

Scientists headed by teams at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Purdue University have published the results of a study that they claim represents the first-ever look at a key stage in ...

What is paramyxovirus? The British government last updated their disease guidance for paramyxovirus back in 2018. It states that the disease does not usually affect humans though does affect ...

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The paramyxovirus group, including the Nipah virus which recently broke out in India, poses a significant threat, with a mortality rate of 40-75 per cent, contrasting Covid-19’s 1 per cent rate.

The mystery respiratory illness that has caused worldwide alarm and killed 16 people belongs to the paramyxovirus family, tests on patients in Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore strongly suggest ...

Avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV-1) is a single-strand RNA virus known to cause Newcastle disease, an infectious disease with neurologic, digestive, and respiratory manifestations in birds.

It said the disease appears to be pigeon paramyxovirus, which is described as “an invariably fatal viral disease that can affect pigeons, doves and poultry. ...

Newcastle disease, for example, is a paramyxovirus that affects birds and is known to wipe out entire flocks. Between 2018–20, an outbreak among poultry in California forced the culling of a ...

According to FWP, pigeon paramyxovirus, or PPMV, "does not represent a substantial risk to humans or pets, but precautionary measures should still be taken to dispose of carcasses." ...

It's thought the pigeon paramyxovirus was probably transmitted from a pigeon in Victoria. The flock in Sydney is now in quarantine, but the Chief Vet in New South Wales, Ian Roth, ...