This research comes as many mosquito-borne viruses are spreading rapidly. Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting a ...

A new long-term study into long COVID has investigated how a certain population of white blood cells, called memory T cells, are established and develop as part of the body’s defense to fight off the ...

(CN) — Scientists are on the way to developing a vaccine that will deliver lifetime immunity against influenza. According to a study published Friday in Nature Communications, flu viruses are ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) say they have developed a reverse genetics system ...

As summer turns to fall, it's still mosquito season in Wisconsin — which means West Nile virus is still circulating. The state Department of Health Services announced Thursday that two Wisconsin ...

Scientists for the first time ever developed antibodies that could block Epstein Barr virus or EBV. This is a pathogen that is estimated to infect 95 per cent of the global population. The Epstein ...