The World Health Organization (WHO) today moved to calm the increasingly competitive atmosphere that seems to be developing in the quest to identify the cause of worldwide Severe Acute Respiratory ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Despite its high current death rate, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that emerged in Saudi Arabia last year is unlikely to cause a SARS-like epidemic because it is not ...

Researchers present a new therapeutic tool capable of inhibiting the proliferation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The results open up new perspectives in the fight against this ...

UCSF researchers designed new drug candidates that potently block MPro, a viral enzyme that's crucial for SARS-CoV-2 replication. One of these drug candidates, AVI-4516, is shown (center) bound to the ...

HONG KONG - Health officials announced a sharp rise Monday in cases of a flu-like disease at a Hong Kong apartment complex and slapped a 10-day quarantine on one building as they scrambled to contain ...

SARS so far has killed at least 662 people worldwide and infected more than 7,800 — mostly in Asia. The United States has reported 67 cases to WHO but no deaths. Thompson was on his way to WHO's ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch researchers have built a three-dimensional model of a type of virus that causes SARS in a step that could one day help in the battle against the deadly disease. The model, ...