Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

Ancient Greek sages argued that, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad!” The disclosure last week that the Trump administration’s Justice Department is initiating a criminal ...

Colorado State University, where the research is taking place, has “an alarming pattern of recent animal lab accidents,” ...

This week’s report ranges from a big proposal to remake global health institutions to a very concrete, “cynical” decision shaping health care in a humanitarian disaster.

Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus, closely related to Ebola. WHO warns of its high lethality and has ...

Patent Number 12,508,266 provides intellectual property protection for a broad range of claims for the use of the drug to treat viral infections from the filoviridae family, which tend to be easily ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...