A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

Texas Biomed Professor Luis Martínez-Sobrido, Ph.D., and Scripps Research Institute Professor Juan Carlos de la Torre, Ph.D., ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Follow Newsweek's live blog for ...

which includes a live but weakened or "attenuated" version of the virus. Other live-attenuated vaccines already in use include those for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), smallpox, chickenpox and ...

Over 300 live samples of deadly viruses—including hantavirus, lyssavirus and Hendra virus—went unaccounted for after a ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a surprising link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of Alzheimer's disease in a subset of people.

Cooper, who steered the state through the coronavirus pandemic, Hurricanes Helene and Florence and an early flashpoint in the ...

Hundreds of vials containing live viruses have gone missing from a laboratory in Australia, sparking an investigation. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced today that 323 samples of ...

Over 800 million people have genital herpes — and in many cases the virus can flare up over a person's lifetime, causing ...