An international research team has identified a highly virulent and infectious strain of HIV that likely began circulating in the Netherlands in the 1990s and has infected more than 100 people. Left ...
BECKLEY — A virulent strain of influenza has pushed the 2025-26 flu season to its highest activity level in 25 years, bringing longer fevers and harsher symptoms, area health officials said Thursday. ...
The author, Jess Dawson, M.D., a masters of public health candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit. As evidence mounts that the ...
As evidence mounts that the omicron variant is less deadly than prior COVID-19 strains, one oft-cited explanation is that viruses always evolve to become less virulent over time. The problem, experts ...