Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Hepatitis B is relatively frequent in the Bouaké military region, with a prevalence of 5.23%. It predominantly affects ...

Within the complex hierarchy of marine ecosystems, giant viruses are now being recognized as novel drivers of both ecological ...

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Thanks to the introduction of a vaccine in 1963, measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. Now the highly contagious disease has reemerged as a threat as declining vaccination rates fuel ...

Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

Pepper, the pet cat who made headlines last year for his role in the discovery of the first jeilongvirus found in the U.S., ...

As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which ...

Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for ...

RSV is causing thousands of infant deaths in India yearly, yet remains underdiagnosed. Experts stress the urgent need for ...

While you are soaking up the summer sun, doctors say you can still get sick, including from two new COVID strains that are ...