We hear about norovirus most often these days when there is an outbreak on a cruise ship. However, the infection is much more prevalent than that. Norovirus is responsible for 1 million doctor’s visits by children...
A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. The new method, known as...
A new survey finds even though vaccines for certain teenage illnesses are available and are found to be safe, many parents aren’t having their teens inoculated. The question is why? Researchers looked at parent...
This year’s unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are...
Scientists have worked out how a deadly new virus which was unknown in humans until last year is able to infect human cells and cause severe, potentially fatal damage to the lungs. In one of the first detailed studies...
Researchers have discovered a compound that could help protect the health of newborns when they are most vulnerable to infection. The compound — a vaccine additive — could make immunizations more effective...
People are generally surprised to learn that scientists don’t know for sure how flu spreads,” says Donald Milton, M.D., Dr.P.H., who directs the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and led...
Viruses often spread through the brain in patchwork patterns, infecting some cells but missing others. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain why. The scientists showed that...
Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed eight...