Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

Many people frequently ask me why cancer seems more prevalent today than in the past or why cancer patients often succumb to the disease more quickly than those with other conditions. One of the most ...

By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients. Led by Rwanda ...

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

The research focused on search volumes for selected viruses, including Mpox, Marburg, Epstein-Barr, Zika, and HMPV, to highlight cities where residents exhibit the highest levels of concern or ...

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. Among other things, the virus would display a poem about ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist.

Zika Uses Human Skin as 'Mosquito Magnet' to Spread Virus Further Jan. 30, 2025 — Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect ...

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.