The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

How that process plays out is not yet known, but other recent studies have found viruses may play a unique role. HSV-1 is a major risk factor for neurodegeneration, possibly doubling the chances ...

The virus binds to that cell, slips inside and uses the cell's machinery ... directly but would interfere with it enough to allow the body's immune system to clear the infection.

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

This trapped the virus inside a wall of immune people and stopped ... It is unbelievably aggressive in the human body, but scientists still don’t understand all the virus’s mechanisms.

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract.

Once a pathogen invader, like the flu virus, gets inside your body, you have to respond quickly. Time to turn on your immune system to destroy them. Your first response to infection is fever.

Once inside the cells, the virus replicates, producing more viral particles. These newly formed viruses infect neighbouring cells, spreading through the respiratory epithelium. The body’s immune ...