"Flu virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection," the CDC says.

A virus that most adults on Earth have been exposed to has a sneaky route into the brain, and a world-first study has now ...

Viral infections are the most common asthma triggers in adults and children. A viral wheeze in toddlers is different than asthma, although some children with the condition eventually develop asthma.

In children, exanthems are most often related to infection and, of these, viral infections are the most common. Some exanthems have very specific morphologies that help identify and characterize ...

Dengue viral infections can result in a range of symptoms. Some people show no symptoms or just have mild signs of the disease, but others develop severe complications. How does the body respond ...

“This is also an important question to answer: why those patients with Down syndrome suffer from severe viral infection.” Down syndrome, also called trisomy 21, is the most common chromosomal disease ...

Hepatitis B can lead to liver disease. But we can prevent and manage this viral infection. Here’s what we know about the ...

In cases of acute arthritis, it is crucial to consider infectious causes, particularly viral infections. This recommendation was made by a team of rheumatologists led by Dr Matthias Wahle ...

To learn more about the mechanisms linking metabolism and viral infection severity, Sun and his research team ... kind of like a fire that is burning,” explained Taylor. “It has to burn just right, ...

Olga Rivera Ballesteros from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is ...

Known as Oropouche virus, it can trigger a fever that ... the increase in Oropouche infections can be explained partially by global heating and the ongoing destruction of the environment.