Respiratory tract diseases are illnesses that affect components of the respiratory system, including the nasal passages, the bronchi and the lungs. They range from acute infections, such as ...

Maybe you've been in a room recently with someone who's coughing, but they say "I promise it's not COVID." While it's important to still be cautious about COVID-19, there are other viral ...

SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome ... and neurologic diseases in animals. One reason that SARS-CoV might have been more lethal than other coronaviruses is that it appears to interfere with an ...

In 2019, two infectious diseases - lower respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases - were ranked in the top ten causes of death worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO). Both of these ...

developed a unique system involving a natural mouse virus known as Sendai virus, and fluorescent markers of infection. Sendai is related to human parainfluenza virus, a common respiratory virus ...

A research team has successfully utilized human respiratory organoids (mini-organs) to propagate human rhinovirus C (HRV-C), which had previously been refractory to conventional virus cultivation.