Orthohantaviruses, such as the Puumala virus, are widespread in Europe, causing flu-like illnesses and severe kidney damage ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen. Viruses ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Virus-related illnesses caused by the consumption of contaminated food are often caused by human noroviruses or hepatitis A viruses, which are mostly detected on frozen berries and in shellfish. In ...

Influenza D virus, a pathogen best known for causing respiratory illness in cattle, appears to be silently infecting farmworkers across multiple continents, according to a growing body of serological ...

Nipah virus is rare, deadly, and tightly monitored, but for travelers and the US public, awareness beats alarm. Nipah virus is back. It has not hit the US yet, but it has quietly reminded public ...

India is moving quickly to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in the eastern state of West Bengal after two cases were confirmed by the federal health ministry. Nearly 200 people have been quarantined ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...