A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...

Humans have been fighting viruses since the species has existed. For some viral diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs have prevented widespread infection or helped people recover. And we've even been ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...

Researchers have proposed a new evolutionary model for the origin of a kingdom of viruses called Bamfordvirae, suggesting a billion-years evolutionary arms race between two groups within this kingdom ...

Michael Oldstone was just 11 years old when he read a book that influenced his life’s work — Paul de Kreuf’s “Microbe Hunters,” about the scientists who tracked the microscopic villains that caused ...

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

The rinderpest virus is the second virus to have been eliminated by humans, according to a BBC report. A virus that affected cattle, domestic buffalo, and some species of wildlife, it was quite deadly ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

Ethiopia has initiated an emergency response after confirming the first cases of Marburg virus in the country’s history.

(THE CONVERSATION) In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...