Alarmed about the continued spread of the chikungunya virus, US health officials have issued more travel advisories, warning Americans to take caution when traveling. Last week, the CDC issued two new ...

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Following the confirmation of a Nipah virus case in Kerala, health authorities have intensified monitoring efforts. Here's what experts say about how the virus spreads, its symptoms, incubation period ...

Nipah virus is rare, deadly, and tightly monitored, but for travelers and the US public, awareness beats alarm. Nipah virus is back. It has not hit the US yet, but it has quietly reminded public ...

Your Android phone is fairly secure, but it's not invincible. Here are some telltale signs to determine if your Android phone ...

It is considered extremely rare for Apple products to catch any sort of virus. That's no accident; it's entirely by design. With a Mac computer, for example, security is built-in. "To safely support ...

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they ...

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The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

Unlike HIV or HBV, HCV replicates its genome directly into RNA without a DNA intermediate, so it lacks a latent, nuclear form that defies ready immunological clearance. In order for the virus to exist ...

With the world still on edge following the COVID-19 pandemic, news that a person has died in Alaska of the Alaskapox virus is understandably dredging up new worries. The virus, first discovered in ...