Study finds that the viral genome can be split between different cells and still cause infection, challenging a fundamental paradigm in virus research Scientists have shown that different segments of a virus genome can...
Bats don’t only carry the deadly Ebola virus, but are also a reservoir for a new type of influenza virus. These newly discovered flu viruses could potentially also attack the cells of humans and livestock...
India suffers from the highest number of dengue infections in the world, but there are few studies, if any, to understand the immune cells involved in fighting the virus. A recent study published in the Journal of...
Findings may influence vaccine and therapy development Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that Zika virus infection leads to modifications of both viral and human...
Scientists are witnessing the theoretical turning into reality: infectious microbes emerging from a deep freeze This past summer anthrax killed a 12-year-old boy in a remote part of Siberia. At least 20 other people...
Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, or $7.1 billion, of the tab, according to the most comprehensive...
Viral infection is one of the leading medical challenges of the 21st Century, ranging from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) epidemic affecting 3% of the global population, to recent outbreaks of West Nile, Zika, and Ebola...
Human safety trials are already under way, researchers add. An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus, and it has proceeded to human safety trials...
Mosquito saliva, which is long-known to help the transmission of infectious agents into the host, is also found to inhibit the virus in case of Dengue infection. A protein named D7, which is present in Aedes aegypti...
A new study has found that Zika virus can live in eyes and has identified genetic material from the virus in tears. The study, in mice, helps explain why some Zika patients develop eye disease including a condition...