A 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died after contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with an expert warning that the virus ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...

Researchers have developed a way to tag RNA with a glowing "lantern" to track it in real time as it moves through the body.

Jide Idris, director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says the country is not under serious threat ...

Twenty states (plus D.C.) had "very high" levels of the virus present in wastewater, an increase from 16 states the week ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...

An uptick of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases in China has raised concerns over another pandemic, which appear to be ...

Researchers discover how Zika virus and related viruses replicate in human cells, illuminating potential new vaccines.

RNA is the molecule that reads the genetic information stored in DNA. It's critical for the proper functioning of cells, and in a new study scientists have discovered a way of tagging RNA with a ...

Zika virus is unusual in that it can cross the placenta and enter the fetus, where ANKLE2 is known to play a big role in brain development.

The virus was identified through sequencing of serum sampes from patients in China with fever and recent tick bites.