A lethal virus that can inflame and damage the brain has re-emerged in India, reviving fears that a pathogen with a very high ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (HIV-2) remains a unique entity in the landscape of HIV research due to its distinct epidemiological and clinical characteristics. Predominantly confined to West ...

Cow udders may provide a hotspot for bird flu and human flu viruses to mingle. The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold becomes.

Bird flu viruses appear to replicate and thrive at temperatures higher than a typical fever—one of the body’s key protective ways of stopping viruses. This threat to human health has been outlined in ...