How does the body react after contracting the deadly NiV? Expert explains how the Nipah virus attacks the brain, leading to ...

Nipah virus outbreak: Nipah virus, a rare but deadly zoonotic disease, is highly infectious and fatal and there is no ...

Two cases have been detected in India among health care workers.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus which will infect almost everyone at some point in their life. It is the ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Scientists have identified 22 genes that explain why one common virus leaves many people unharmed but puts others at risk of ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.