Some viruses that infect bacteria carry an enzyme that gives them away. When that enzyme, a protease, cuts a particular ...

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

Doctors discuss COVID, flu and RSV vaccines recommended this year.

The FDA has approved pritelivir to treat mucocutaneous lesions caused by herpes simplex virus in immunocompromised adult ...

People around the world are still fighting against this pathogen, there is currently an outbreak of sheeppox in Greece, ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread among wildlife species, according to new research. The virus was detected in six common backyard species, and antibodies indicating prior ...

As Oropouche virus cases rise across South America, experts call for urgent action to prevent its spread, with the U.S. potentially at risk due to travel-associated cases. Synopsis: Reemergence of ...

On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking the tenth instance of Nipah virus spillover (transmission of the pathogen ...

Eleven people have died in Rwanda from the highly contagious Marburg virus, and 36 cases have been confirmed, the country's health ministry reported Tuesday, just days after the country declared an ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery: a virus found in the ocean called FloV-SA2 carries the genetic instructions for making part of a ribosome—a crucial ...

"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the ...