open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

Much like the coronavirus, sloth fever, or Oropouche virus, has been around for decades, yet it has managed to fly under the radar in the public eye. Now, health officials have begun warning of its ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it — until a pair of Virginia Tech researchers waded into the ...

Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A large dormant virus, named Punuivirus, was discovered in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. This virus, the largest known with a latent infection cycle ...

It also showed up to 75 percent neutralization of the HSV-1 virus and up to 94 percent of the HSV-2 virus – the two most common herpes viruses out there. Neutralization means that the virus is less ...

A teenage dancer was left paralysed and unable to communicate after what she thought was a common bug turned out to be a catastrophic brain bleed. The deadly problem often has no early warning ...

The highly contagious measles virus – which has claimed the life of a second child in Texas – has spread east, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting measles cases in ...

Doctors are raising concerns about a spike in cases of the oropouche virus, also known as "sloth fever," in popular tourist destinations throughout the Caribbean. According to the Daily Mail, cases of ...

Public health officials this week confirmed two more measles cases in Colorado, including one person who didn’t travel, raising fears the highly contagious virus could already be spreading ...

Animal control said there is no cure for the virus within wildlife animals and not every animal seen during the day is sick. They ask anyone who needs assistance to contact the Watertown non ...