A clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing an experimental treatment designed to help people suffering the effects of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease.

A creative layout featuring a photo of an Aedes mosquito, which can transmit the dengue virus, and cryoelectron microscopy renderings of mature dengue virus particles. Groups of dengue virus particles ...

By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

This means the Zorya system can directly fight off viruses without killing the bacterial cell," says Nicholas Taylor. "Using cryo-electron microscopy, we looked at the structure of the ZorAB complex ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Four viruses—COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and ...

Flu season might soon be dubbed “sick season” as a cocktail of respiratory viruses, including influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), surges across the United States.

The evidence has been piling up all around us for months. Lurid headlines warning of a “quad-demic” and a mysterious virus spreading in China; relatives sickened for weeks with flu and ...

These areas are in Bedok, Sixth Avenue and Ang Mo Kio. “Among the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Singapore, dengue virus serotype 2 (DenV-2) has been predominant since September 2023, with ...

The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by ... The arrival of AI-based protein-structure prediction tools — such as AlphaFold, created ...

But there's a fourth "bug" the public should be aware of: respiratory syncytial virus. RSV causes cold-like symptoms and affects the breathing passages and lungs. Wastewater levels of RSV are ...