The deadly hantavirus behind a cruise outbreak that’s sickened at least a dozen people and killed three of them may be ...

Jody Baron and Gabi Fragiadakis discover why some people with chronic Hepatitis B are cured after they're taken off of ...

Viruses play a far more active role in Earth's carbon cycle than previously understood, according to new research that reveals how they infect and control microbes responsible for carbon production in ...

The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread ...

'Midwest nice' need not apply to mosquitoes.

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

A man goes to a birthday party, sits next to someone with hantavirus, catches it, gives it to his wife, and dies. His wife ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common ...

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is ...

During the early stages of a pandemic, viruses tend to evolve in ways that enhance their ability to reproduce and spread, rather than to evade the host's immune system. The genetics and sex of the ...

Southern California is home to a flying black and yellow treasure. While commercial honeybee hives nationwide are collapsing under attack from deadly parasites, a unique hybrid bee found only in this ...

The world is full of microbes, and we don’t know anything about many of them. Lots of these microbes, which include bacteria, fungi, and viruses, are harmless. But others can affect us in different ...