A Virus That Predates The Republic Has Been Hiding In American Mosquitoes. Scientists Just Decoded Its History

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long ...

Rare but dangerous tick-borne virus on the rise in US

The Powassan virus is spread mainly by the deer tick, the same one that carries Lyme disease.

The Ebola Outbreak’s Central Mystery: Where Did This Virus Come From?

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they ...

Plant DNA harbors virus 'fossils' that reflect 300 million years of evolution

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Inside Pa.’s measles outbreak: A family rides out the virus, doctors treat severely ill children

On a small Lancaster County farm last month, five of the eight King siblings sprawled on the living room floor, sucking on ...

125 People Fell Ill In Another Cruise Ship Virus Outbreak, CDC Says

The norovirus outbreak comes just months after the much more deadly hantavirus spread through a Dutch-flagged cruise ship ...

Uganda finds isolated Marburg virus case, Africa CDC says

NAIROBI, July 1 (Reuters) - Ugandan health authorities have confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an Ebola ...

Scientists develop antibody against the virus hiding in 95% of adults and linked to cancer and MS

Targeting the virus at entry To breach the immune system, EBV depends on two surface proteins: gp350 and gp42. It uses these ...