Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

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

As Nipah virus cases re-emerge in India, a neurologist explains how the virus spreads inside the body, damages blood vessels, ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT ...

A newly identified mechanism lends credence to the idea that MS may be treatable by targeting EBV-infected B-cells, a study found.

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

The protein on human cells that tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) uses for infection has now been identified-a major step toward understanding how TBEV causes neurological disease and for ...

Oct. 15 -- TUESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- New details about the structure of a virus that can infect lung cancer cells have been uncovered by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

The _Aedes_ mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever. Lee Haines, CC BY-ND Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with ...

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

Two suspected Nipah virus cases in West Bengal’s Barasat have put health authorities on high alert. Amid the disease outbreak, doctors share the symptoms of the deadly virus and its prevention ...