With the world still on edge following the COVID-19 pandemic, news that a person has died in Alaska of the Alaskapox virus is understandably dredging up new worries. The virus, first discovered in ...

India issues Nipah virus alert. Know the key safety steps to protect doctors, nurses, patients, and prevent hospital ...

A little-known virus is getting a lot of attention this year. It's called Oropouche, and it's been making headlines because of a notable increase in diagnoses. So far in 2024 there have been over ...

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, ...

Avian influenza viruses typically require several mutations to adapt and spread among humans, but what happens when just one change can increase the risk of becoming a pandemic virus? A recent study ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don't know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and the other animals ...