Some viruses that infect bacteria carry an enzyme that gives them away. When that enzyme, a protease, cuts a particular ...

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

Doctors discuss COVID, flu and RSV vaccines recommended this year.

The FDA has approved pritelivir to treat mucocutaneous lesions caused by herpes simplex virus in immunocompromised adult ...

People around the world are still fighting against this pathogen, there is currently an outbreak of sheeppox in Greece, ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread among wildlife species, according to new research. The virus was detected in six common backyard species, and antibodies indicating prior ...

As Oropouche virus cases rise across South America, experts call for urgent action to prevent its spread, with the U.S. potentially at risk due to travel-associated cases. Synopsis: Reemergence of ...

Eleven people have died in Rwanda from the highly contagious Marburg virus, and 36 cases have been confirmed, the country's health ministry reported Tuesday, just days after the country declared an ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery: a virus found in the ocean called FloV-SA2 carries the genetic instructions for making part of a ribosome—a crucial ...

Rates of enterovirus D68 infections are on the rise across the United States, according to the nonprofit WastewaterSCAN network. This common virus can lead to a rare but serious polio-like ...

"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the ...