Dear friends and fellow South Africans, Imagine a world in which the Human Immunodeficiency Virus no longer exists ... ever to have been wiped off the face of the earth. The other was Rinderpest.

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...

But winter’s scents aren’t the only things being spread. Winter also marks the height of the respiratory virus season, a period of sniffles, sneezes, congestion, fever and other maladies brought about ...