Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

CDC data show SARS-CoV-2 and RSV continue to impact younger children and older adults, with significant hospitalization and mortality rates across the US.

Two of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 — a pair of bat coronaviruses discovered by researchers in Laos — may transmit poorly in people despite being genetically similar to the ...

World Health Organization officials first learned about a cluster of cases of pneumonia in the Hubei Province of China on Dec. 31, 2019. This represented the initial report of what soon became known ...

Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a human heart cell ...

The SARS-like virus has killed two more people, bringing the death toll to 11. March 27, 2013— -- The mysterious SARS-like virus that appears to be originating in the Middle East has claimed two ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Monash University in ...

Young infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) often become much sicker compared to those infected with ...

This concern is particularly more relevant in South Asia, where recent increases in Nipah virus cases reported in India and Bangladesh suggest more frequent human-bat interactions in the region. Covid ...