Winter creates perfect conditions for viruses to spread. Cold, dry air helps viruses survive longer outside the body, and ...

COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and norovirus—have created what experts are calling a "quad-demic" in the U.S. Here's what to know ...

An email virus that contained "Good Times" in the subject field which supposedly would damage the data in your computer if you opened the message. This was a famous hoax first encountered in 1994 ...

A number of viruses are on the rise in North Carolina.

and therefore not circulating in the environment “it increases worries that some people may experience more severe infection than other people. Bottom line is that this is not a good virus to ...

Norovirus cases reportedly surge in Massachusetts, nasty stomach bug spreading across country: ‘Practice good hand hygiene’ ...

"Permafrost is a very good preserver of microbes and viruses because it is cold, there is no oxygen, and it is dark," evolutionary biologist Jean-Michel Claverie at Aix-Marseille University in ...

“The average bird flu virus is not very good at all at sticking to the cells in our mucous membrane, which is what it needs to cause a human infection,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of ...

“The emergence of a bovine H5N1 virus capable of recognizing human receptors may be closer than previously thought,” Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies ...