Scientists report progress in their bid to develop ways to piggyback an HIV vaccine on germs that cause colds. In the new study, Harvard researchers said they successfully used cold viruses to deliver an experimental...
The world is once again asking scientists and drugmakers to come up rapidly with a vaccine for a viral disease that, in the latest case, few people had heard of until a few weeks ago, and even fewer feared. Making a...
Drugmakers globally are racing to produce a vaccine for Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that has been linked to severe birth defects. The World Health Organization has warned the disease is spreading explosively through...
The Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas, which could see up to 4 million cases over the next year, international health officials said Thursday, announcing a special meeting next week to...
The rapid spread of Zika virus through the Americas, together with the association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, have propelled this previously ignored virus into the limelight. What is...
As many as half of the antibiotics prescribed to outpatients in the United States are unnecessary. And many of those scripts come from doctors who aren’t sure whether a patient is infected with bacteria — and needs...
While the goal of polio virus eradication is in sight, there are concerns about post-eradication manufacturing and stockpiling vaccine stores containing live virus that could escape and repopulate the environment. A...
When we are ill with a virus infection, it is because the virus has entered cells in our body and taken over their machinery to make copies of itself. Finding ways to disrupt this process is important for antiviral drug...
A virologist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, has suggested that Zika virus infection is the only vector-borne disease that may be transmitted by sexual intercourse. The first...
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...