In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers used the CAST/EiJ mouse model to test whether genetic differences between clades 1, 2a, and 2b of the mpox virus contribute to ...

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, ...

The coronavirus is on a serious self-improvement kick. Since infiltrating the human population, SARS-CoV-2 has splintered into hundreds of lineages, with some seeding new, fast-spreading variants. A ...

A number of factors influence the way the virulence of a virus — that is, how harmful it is to its host — affects its ability to survive and spread; in some cases, higher virulence may help a virus ...

Bob Holmes’s “Rules of contagion” made for wonderful reading but also made a significant omission: the latency or incubation period of pathogens (28 October, p 44). Just as endurance outside the ...

(KRON) — Bay Area medical experts are seeing early signs that COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise again. They are encouraging masking, testing and vaccines to prevent the spread during the ...

A new HIV variant with higher virulence and more damaging health impacts has been discovered in a new study. As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic ...

Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health and Bernard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another ...