The World Health Organization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination campaign. This follows environmental sampling that showed a re-emergence of ...

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Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.

Australian researchers published new findings on Tuesday, revealing how rapidly SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, evolved, offering crucial insights that could aid in forecasting and combating ...

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Chicago have uncovered a mechanism that SARS-CoV-2, ...

In some cases, "symptoms can escalate to more severe respiratory distress," infectious disease expert Dr. Tyler Evans told Newsweek.

Then, from passenger No. 5, she detected a coronavirus. She sequenced the genome and ran the results through GenBank, a go-to DNA database for identifying novel pathogens. The virus looked much ...

The ICMR is focusing on three main factors: how transmissible the COVID-19 virus is, whether it is evading existing immunity, and whether it is a serious illness occurring even in people without ...

A dangerous new coronavirus discovered in China could spark the next pandemic, American scientists have warned. According to ...

Some, such as University of Missouri School of Medicine molecular virologist Marc Johnson, have suggested that Covid-19 could evolve from a respiratory infection to a faecal-oral virus ...

The Covid-19 virus in the U.S. has largely faded from view. But it hasn’t faded away. National wastewater data shows low Covid-19 activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...