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Five years ago, a mysterious new virus emerged in Wuhan, China, marking the start of a global health crisis. Initially nameless, the virus and the illness it caused would eventually ignite a ...

A quadruple whammy of viruses – flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – is hitting the U.S. as the year comes to a close. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The CDC estimates there have been over 1,500 deaths from flu so far this year. Respiratory illness activity – a measure of how often conditions like the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and ...

Already banned and blacklisted in the United States, NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus spyware is in more trouble as WhatsApp has prevailed over it in court. The Meta-owned messaging app accused the Israel ...

Most norovirus outbreaks occur when people who are already infected spread the virus to others by direct means, such as through sharing food or eating utensils. Outbreaks can also be spread ...

That raises the possibility a person could get infected with both seasonal flu and H5N1 and the viruses could swap gene segments, Birx said, giving the bird flu virus more tools to better infect ...

In the years since that fateful meeting, I’ve become PCMag’s expert on security, privacy, and identity protection, putting antivirus tools, security suites, and all kinds of security software ...

While this development has not changed the CDC’s official assessment of risk to the general public, it does indicate that the H5N1 virus is capable of adapting to human airways. If you're ...

Scientists have developed an innovative therapeutic platform by mimicking the intricate structures of viruses using artificial intelligence (AI). Professor Sangmin Lee from POSTECH's Department of ...

NSO Group Technologies’. WhatsApp accused controversial spyware maker NSO Group of exploiting a vulnerability in WhatsApp to install ‘Pegasus’ spyware, which enabled the unauthorized surveillance of 1 ...

The CDC said the patient's sample showed mutations in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, the part of the virus that plays a key role in it attaching to host cells. The health body said, opens new tab ...