The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

A virus largely unknown outside scientific circles is spreading rapidly across parts of Latin America, drawing comparisons to Zika and dengue and prompting concern from epidemiologists. Known as the ...

Unlike HIV or HBV, HCV replicates its genome directly into RNA without a DNA intermediate, so it lacks a latent, nuclear form that defies ready immunological clearance. In order for the virus to exist ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- Warning signs are going up in Pioneer Park in Garden Grove where mosquitos have tested positive for West Nile virus. "Unfortunately because we weren't able to do the ...

Samples from a patient who recently developed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. showed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in the human upper ...

India is moving quickly to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in the eastern state of West Bengal after two cases were confirmed by the federal health ministry. Nearly 200 people have been quarantined ...

ALBANY — The mpox virus, which was almost nonexistent last year after a summer 2022 outbreak, is showing signs of a return — particularly in New York City. As of March 23, New York City had 113 people ...

As West Nile virus continues to be a concern in the Pittsburgh area, wildlife rehabbers are seeing an uptick in sick birds. Within the last few weeks, Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh's Wildlife ...

Richard Birtles currently receives funding from NERC, BBSRC, DEFRA and USDA to study tick-borne pathogen ecology. Laura Brettell does not work for, consult, own ...