Pakistan’s failure to eradicate the polio virus may have some serious implications – ones that go far beyond the medical. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has...
The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. In a perspective in the Nov. 9 issue of the...
Scientists have sequenced the herpes virus genome identifying several hundred previously unknown proteins, paving the way for better understanding of complex mechanisms used by the virus. Researchers from the Max Planck...
As children, we get a number of vaccines that last for years. Why not our annual flu vaccines? Right now, a new flu vaccine is created every year because the proteins on the virus that our immune system can recognize...
The virus that is causing alarm among global public health authorities after it killed a man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia earlier this year and is now linked to two other cases of disease, is a novel type of coronavirus most...
A test for HIV that is 10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods, has been developed by British scientists. It uses nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the naked eye by...
3% of Ukraine’s population is infected with hepatitis C virus, chief infectious diseases specialist of the Healthcare Ministry of Ukraine, head of the Bohomolets National Medical University Infectious Diseases...
Researchers at the University of Leeds have identified a crucial stage in the lifecycle of simple viruses like polio and the common cold that could open a new front in the war on viral disease. The team are the first to...
When you think about viruses, you might wonder how they infect, how they spread, and how they kill. These questions are of natural interest—you, after all, could play host to a grand variety of lethal viruses. But do...
New vaccine delivery methods through the lungs offer particular advantages for protection against infectious agents that enter the body through a respiratory track, a new study has revealed. An added benefit to the...