Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) (Getty) Health officials in Britain have published a first-of-its-kind ...

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

A systematic review of more than 200 studies published in BMC Infectious Diseases on human viruses over more than a century ...

Suspected Nipah virus cases have been reported, prompting expert warnings about its high fatality and contagious nature.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Researchers reconstruct the spatial spread of pandemic respiratory viruses across metropolitan areas throughout the United ...

COVID-19 took the world by storm in early 2020, being declared a pandemic in March of that year. While it was the most recent emerging infectious disease, experts anticipate it won’t be the last. Well ...

England is expanding wastewater surveillance to detect virus outbreaks early, giving hospitals more time to respond before ...