A very young child is ill with the first confirmed case of measles in Wirral. The news comes just days after a child died in Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The hospital has reported a ...

Viruses and bacteria are always trying to sneak into our bodies, but researchers at the University of Missouri are ...

A University of Manitoba expert is a vital part of an international team of scientists studying the alarming changes in the spread of mpox across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to better ...

Taxonomy — classifying viruses into genus, species and so forth — has the power to affect public health For the first time, ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...

Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States, with the biggest increases in parts of the South, Southeast ...