The newly identified MCR-1 resistance gene has been detected in six more countries, along with worrisome signs that it can appear alongside other resistance genes, which would make some infections untreatable, according...
New year, new threat. A virus suspected of triggering fetal brain damage is likely to spread further in 2016. Zika virus was discovered in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947. For the next 50 years, the virus, which is...
A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus with the potential to “transmit efficiently in humans” and cause a pandemic has been discovered in China. Scientists isolated 139 H1N1 swine flu viruses in pigs in...
Researchers are testing the potency of a vaccine to destroy “toxic tangles”, which are a hallmark of the disease. Trials involving patients with early stages of the incurable condition are already under way. If...
Polio, otherwise known as poliomyelitis, is a disease that the world, as a whole, is eager to be rid of. Once it has been permanently destroyed, the medical community will face new challenges. The polio virus has the...
Scientists have identified a type of immune cell in the lungs of humans that may help fight respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The virus is one of the main causes of childhood hospitalisation, severe lung infection in...
As the Ebola outbreak winds down in West Africa, with no cases reported again last week, researchers reported new findings about complications in survivors and about clinical trial findings for one of the candidate...
UAlberta research identifies how flaviviruses target an essential organelle to subvert the body’s early antiviral defenses. A new discovery from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine &...
The recently discovered coronavirus now referred to as MERS (for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) causes an infectious respiratory disease in humans, which can be fatal. The virus is thought to be transmitted to humans...
When we get cold sores, the reason is likely related to stress. In particular, the neurons in which the herpes simplex virus (HSV) reside, are under stress. For the first time, researchers at the University of North...