Researchers are hoping that by solving the mystery of why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus — pathogens ...

Mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus disease live in wooded areas in the U.S., mainly in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has gone up 20 times in six decades. That makes ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

A seasonal flu virus that can lead to paralysis has been detected in California wastewater. Influenza B has been shown at a ...

Unknown to us, there are millions of viruses wafting through the air as we breathe. Most of these viruses are mild in nature, ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...