New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's ...

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The flu illness is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter the body through droplets and then infect cells. Researchers ...

Outbreaks of the highly contagious stomach virus are more than double what they were last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

These ''black-legged ticks'', Ixodes scapularis, are found on a wide rage of hosts including mammals, birds and reptiles. Black-legged ticks, I. scapularis are known to transmit Lyme disease, Borrelia ...

To disinfect a surface, you can illuminate it with a blast of ultraviolet (UV) light, which is bluer than the human eye can see. But to specifically inactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Egypt have discovered a better way to grow insect-hunting fungi in a lab, according to research published Wednesday in Frontiers in Microbiology, a breakthrough ...

After receiving a series of immunotherapies, most people with HIV in a small study kept their virus levels low for several ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the ...