Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organization ...

Health officials have confirmed the United States’ first human case of New World screwworm infection, a rare but serious parasitic disease that has prompted alerts across both public health and ...

Dynamics of HPV virus load over the course of an acute infection. The diagram represents variations in the mean number of viruses per cell in the samples over time. The dark band shows the median ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of ...

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 confirmed human H5N1 infections in the United States this year. But the case of ...

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...

Hospitals across Oregon are falling below national standards in preventing infections, according to the Oregon Health ...

Inflammation can feel like a small storm inside your body. It brings heat, swelling, and pain as the immune system rushes to ...