Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

The word herpes comes from Greek and means “creeping.” That’s all! Over the centuries it has been employed to describe ...

A large quasi-experimental study in Australia found that adults eligible for free shingles vaccination based on their date of ...

Traditionally, viruses have been thought of as a burden that cause disease. Now, viruses are being harnessed to tackle ...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox and shingles, while herpes simplex virus (HSV) is responsible for oral and genital herpes. Although current treatments mainly focus on inhibiting viral ...

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Early clinical and preclinical findings presented at the 35th European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious ...

In various experiments, a protein found in the gum substantially neutered two flu strains and the herpes simplex viruses 1 ...

This is the shocking moment a monkey ripped off a woman's wig on a nature trail in China. Footage shows the primate sitting near the holidaymaker before suddenly grabbing her hairpiece at Qianling ...

Here's something cool: brains at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a chewing gum that, at least in lab tests is ...

The gum is made from bean powder naturally containing a protein that binds to a wide variety of germs, including influenza and the viruses that cause herpes.

In the new study, the Italian researchers recruited 132,986 adults aged 50 and older - 12,000 of who were hospitalised with a ...