A systematic review of more than 200 studies published in BMC Infectious Diseases on human viruses over more than a century ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health. By Carl Zimmer The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

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 the first cellular life. More than 600 ...

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...

Hepatitis G is the former name for human pegivirus 1 (HPgV-1). It is typically transmitted through blood. Avoiding contact with blood products with the virus can help prevent it from transferring.

Researchers uncover how a key human immune protein curbs H5N1 avian flu, but the virus is evolving—could we be on the brink of a new zoonotic threat? Research Letter: Replication Restriction of ...

A brand new virus, which may be able to jump to humans, has been detected in a mouse in Florida. The virus is a type of jeilongvirus, which have previously only been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and ...

Bird flu viruses appear to replicate and thrive at temperatures higher than a typical fever—one of the body’s key protective ways of stopping viruses. This threat to human health has been outlined in ...

The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than scientists thought. New research shows that cow udder cells can be infected ...