Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

The virus would become a pandemic virus if it gains the capability of human-to-human transmission, the head of the French ...

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The virus, first identified in 2001, is one of a handful of respiratory illnesses spreading this winter. This is what we know about the current outbreak. China is experiencing an outbreak of human ...

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Could a future vaccine against cancer be made better by an immune-boosting virus? Very likely, say Canadian scientists, who’ve proven its effectiveness in experiments on mice. Led by Université de ...

One very grateful recipient, John DiFazio, 62, a Vietnam vet and retired firefighter living in New York City, said that since the late 1990s he had tried half a dozen different treatments for ...

The Diamond Princess cruise ship, which returned to Japan from a round trip to Hong Kong on February 3, had an 80-year-old Hong Kong man infected with the new coronavirus who boarded the ship from ...

West Nile virus is spreading across the US and Europe. This deadly disease has been around for decades, but there is still no vaccine and no cure in humans. After a distinguished career as one of the ...

Today's high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 ...