"It's incredible, and a big surprise, that the same infection that caused so much devastation can help create a ...

Reports this week of a teen in British Columbia who tested positive for H5 avian influenza has renewed attention on the virus ...

An ‘extremely contagious’ virus appears to be sweeping the UK at the moments as Brits are being urged to stay at home if they ...

and now zoo officials are implementing safety precautions to prevent the virus from spreading to more exotic birds. According ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Doctors across Florida are treating an increasing number of patients with walking pneumonia, strep throat and the flu.

There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

Researchers have discovered a significant association between specific Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) variants and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). NPC is a cancer notably prevalent in southern China, where ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

The infected person is linked to a previously reported outbreak tied to a commercial poultry operation in the state, where ...

What’s more, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is currently the only approved method of diagnosing mpox. It is expensive, ...