As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane in several countries, scientists around the world are keeping tabs on other viruses that could spread from animals to humans. Many of the most devastating ...

The Paint Explainer provided an explanation of various types of computer viruses and the damage they cause over the course of an eight minute video. As with previous videos, the narrator presents ...

Human parainfluenza viruses cause respiratory infections. They are most common in children. There are four different types of human parainfluenza viruses: HPIV-1, HPIV-2, HPIV-3, and HPIV-4.

Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ...

Scientists have been able to revive 33 types of ancient viruses, which are thought to have been frozen in the ice of the Guliya ice cap in the Tibetan Plateau 15,000 years ago. Of those ...

Researchers are making substantial progress in developing safe and effective vaccines against the dengue virus. Currently, a large number of dengue vaccine candidates are being tested in ...

The second surprise was that the Arctic Ocean had lots of different types of viruses. It had been thought that hotspots for microbial diversity would be at the equator. The world's oceans are ...

Adults and older children undergoing reinfection probably constitute an important source of infection for susceptible infants. For this reason it would be desirable to develop immunoprophylactic ...