One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...

Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

You’ve had the common cold — in fact, you’ve probably had it already this year. And you’ve probably heard that there’s just one cold virus, right? “There are over 200 types of viruses ...

all of the Company’s stockholders now hold Class A common stock, with the same aligned economic and voting interests. The Company anticipates that simplifying its organizational structure and ...

We’ve learned much about the common cold since 1925—from its underlying viruses to its seasonality. But we still contract it just as frequently as we did a century ago; we still suffer the ...

The common cold is caused by one of more than 200 viruses circulating at any given time. Children typically get between 6 and 10 colds yearly, while adults get between 2 and 4. Colds usually include a ...

The first reports of an "unknown virus" appeared on March 29 via SHOT ... Russian health officials now attribute these cases to common respiratory infections, including Mycoplasma pneumonia.

It all began as a mild annoyance – just a little congestion and dizziness that 50-year-old Nadia Bishop from Swindon, UK, dismissed as nothing more than a lingering cold. But what seemed trivial at ...