Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Enteroviruses are a group of viruses that cause everything from the common cold to meningitis, polio, type 1 diabetes, and ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...

It is a group of more than 100 viruses, and different types of HPV occur in different areas of the body. HPV types 6 and 11 are responsible for most cases of genital warts. HPV types 16 and 18 ...

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. A liter of seawater ...