Nipah virus is rare, deadly, and tightly monitored, but for travelers and the US public, awareness beats alarm. Nipah virus is back. It has not hit the US yet, but it has quietly reminded public ...

Alarmed about the continued spread of the chikungunya virus, US health officials have issued more travel advisories, warning Americans to take caution when traveling. Last week, the CDC issued two new ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

Unlike HIV or HBV, HCV replicates its genome directly into RNA without a DNA intermediate, so it lacks a latent, nuclear form that defies ready immunological clearance. In order for the virus to exist ...

Samples from a patient who recently developed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. showed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in the human upper ...

Idaho State Department of Agriculture officials recommend that upcoming horse events in the state are cancelled and related movement of the animals stopped temporarily following confirmed reports of ...

As West Nile virus continues to be a concern in the Pittsburgh area, wildlife rehabbers are seeing an uptick in sick birds. Within the last few weeks, Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh's Wildlife ...

Ed Hutchinson works for the University of Glasgow and has an unpaid positions on the board of the European Scientific Working group on Influenza and other respiratory viruses (ESWI) and as a ...