Philippine health officials say there is no active Nipah virus threat in the country and they are monitoring the situation ...

Travel advisories have been issued for the Seychelles, Bolivia, Cuba, Suriname and Sri Lanka due to chikungunya outbreaks.

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of ...

Scientists at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have reported an important advance in the effort to stop Epstein Barr virus (EBV), a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health workers collect blood samples from goats in the neighborhood for testing after a 12-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus in ...

Microbiologists Patrick Moreira and Purificación López-García, together with virologists Arturo Ludmir and Lynn Enquist, are at the center of a sharp debate over whether viruses count as living ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

Is the fear justified? Separate viral myths from medical facts. Learn how Nipah actually spreads and how to stay safe with expert insights.

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