COVID-19 is a reminder of their destructive power, but they’re crucial to humans’ development and survival. Although feared as agents of disease, viruses also work wonders, shaping evolution ...

The first mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile virus in Connecticut this season were trapped in Bridgeport earlier this month, according to officials with the State ...

Most bacterial and viral infections are contagious and spread fast, especially during the rainy season—most people are ...

During the pandemic, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to hepatitis C research. While in Spain to ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Moderna said on Monday its influenza vaccine was found to be 26.6% more effective than an approved annual flu shot from GSK ...

The team produced viruses expressing 78 distinct hemagglutinin (HA) proteins from 2023-circulating flu viruses and recent vaccine strains, and tagged each one with a unique genetic ‘barcode’.

Researchers isolated the virus from a swab used to collect a sample from the eye of one of the infected workers. That virus — clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype B3.13 — was studied to determine how ...

Using this approach, the researchers measured neutralization titers—a measurement of how much serum is needed to neutralize the virus—against the 78 flu variants using 150 serum samples, from ...

Catching the flu or COVID can trigger a heart attack or stroke in vulnerable people. Here’s what we can all do to lower our ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...