Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected ...

Most people do not know the difference between a cold and a flu, and with all this jargon of Swine Flu/Covid/Virus, we are ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld recommendations for the fall flu vaccination to be administered to anyone six ...

Health authorities in southern Spain are warning of the detection of mosquitoes carrying a deadly virus in two neighbourhoods ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

Even after growing criticism over his racist remarks, President Trump on Wednesday, justified referring novel coronavirus as the "Chinese Virus". "It's not ...

The lawsuit said California's animal cruelty laws created "unnecessary red tape" in egg production, bringing up prices in the ...

The last chart illustrates this with an extreme case: half of Nobel laureates are children of parents belonging to the richest 5% in their birth country. This is the conclusion of research that traced ...