Pepper the cat is clawing his way into virology history — again. The Florida feline just helped scientists identify a new ...

Cells have evolved ingenious ways to defend themselves from viral attack. Research from The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute ...

Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening virus HTLV-1. Yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently has no preventative treatments and no cure.

A patient, who according to medics is suffering from Nipah infection, is shifted to an isolation ward in Kozhikode Medical College in Kozhikode district in the southern state of Kerala, India, on ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

West Nile virus cases are rising across the United States. Public health officials are reporting more infections than usual. The virus spreads through ...

A recent study linking human pegivirus to Parkinson’s is leading scientists to examine the connection between other viral infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

West Nile Virus is most commonly spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. Symptoms of the virus can appear three to 14 days after infection, according to health officials.

The virus is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and can lead to fever, joint pain and malaise. With occurrences of the outbreak ...

Knocking out other genes enhanced the amount of virus within inclusion bodies, structures that form in the human cell to act as viral factories, and prevented the infection from progressing further.