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Every winter, like clockwork, respiratory viruses spread across the country: respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the surrounding environment than by testing individual ...

A model of a new vaccine targeting a family of coronaviruses that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. The image highlights pieces of several different viruses attached to a computer-designed ...

The availability of a four-in-one respiratory virus diagnostic for home use may be a boon to consumers, but some clinicians say it should not be used as a substitute for a physician’s guidance. The ...

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 ...

The Bay Area has now recorded two measles cases since late last year — an early test of whether one of the nation’s most highly vaccinated regions can keep the virus from gaining ground as the United ...

Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator ...

Ph.D. student and research assistant Kristen Gaines injected a virus into a coconut rhinoceros beetle larva at UH-Manoa’s St. John Plant Science Laboratory on Thursday. Michael Melzer is the ...

After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier.