OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – This week the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) issued a health alert advisory to clinicians and laboratories citing sporadic human infections with highly pathogenic ...

Respiratory viruses are on the rise across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Florida is seeing a “very high” amount of activity as new variants of viruses ...

Even viruses have to contend with parasites in the form of sponging relatives – and these cheats may be much more common and important than biologists thought. In flu infections, such viruses may ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new report Getty Analysis of bat kidneys in China found 20 new viruses, including ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over into livestock or even humans. Using genetic sequencing, researchers ...

A person living in New York tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in the first reported transmission within the US in six years, officials said on Tuesday. The chikungunya virus is ...

Viruses are masters at taking over our cells: They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes simplex virus 1, which causes ...