viruses

Officials are racing to track the contacts of the United Kingdom's first human case of a "distinct" form of swine flu.On Monday, the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had detected a single confirmed human case of influenza…

There was a "staggering" annual rise in measles cases and deaths in 2022, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Cases jumped by 18 per cent to an…

How are environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and the spread of pathogens connected? The answer is a puzzle. Researchers from Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now described one piece of that puzzle in the journal eLife,…

A new form of agricultural pest control could one day take root -- one that treats crop infestations deep under the ground in a targeted manner with less pesticide. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed…

Viruses, like movie villains, operate in one of two ways: chill or kill. They can lay low, quietly infiltrating the body's defenses, or go on the attack, exploding out of hiding and firing in all directions. Viral attacks are almost always…

Acute hepatitis resolves on its own with supportive care, but some individuals may develop a chronic infection.Acute hepatitis can be caused by different viruses, with the most common types being hepatitis A, B, and CAcute hepatitis refers…

An interdisciplinary research team from Bochum, Duisburg and Zurich has developed a new approach to construct modular optical sensors which are capable of detecting viruses and bacteria. For this purpose, the researchers used fluorescent…

About one in two women are affected by cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder infections are not only painful and potentially dangerous, but they also pose a significant dilemma for…

Self-sustained levitation of millimeter-sized droplets was recently discovered by researchers at Tyumen State University, in Russia, during an experiment to select combinations of immiscible liquids, which don't form homogeneous mixtures.…

University of Pittsburgh researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host cells. Published today in the…