On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

A new report authored by California health officials describes a raw-milk-related outbreak of Salmonella that sickened dozens ...

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Scientists have decoded the Swiss genome of the 1918 flu virus from a century-old specimen, revealing early adaptations for ...

Stephanie Gorecki’s 9-year-old son had spent the day playing outside in their Illinois suburb. That night, May 4, after he ...

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

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced there were two confirmed human cases of West Nile virus ...

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have taken a major step forward in tackling one of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

A major scientific breakthrough has identified the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) as the leading cause of multiple sclerosis (MS), ...

The mercury-based preservative thimerosal will be removed from all flu shots distributed in United States, Health and Human ...

Just like human children, young bats have been found to harbour and spread lots of viruses.  Their susceptibility to contracting multiple viruses at once makes them the perfect breeding ground for new ...