Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated Raw Milk, Study Reveals Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study.

University of Pittsburgh researchers uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer's disease and herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), suggesting that viral infections may play a role in the disease. The ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Follow Newsweek's live blog for ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

So once someone gets infected, they've got the virus for life. In the 15-to-49-year-old age range, 1 in 5 people are living with a genital herpes infection — that's about 846 million people.

Herpes is a common viral infection caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It’s possible to get herpes symptoms on your buttocks, especially if it’s related to genital herpes (HSV-2 ...

Viruses are packets of genetic material surrounded by a protein coating. They replicate by getting inside of a cell where they take over the cell's replication machinery and direct it to make more ...

Carr explained that this work uses a novel pseudovirus platform -deep mutational scanning- to safely measure the functional and antigenic effects of nearly all amino acid mutations in the Lassa virus ...

WHO and FAO have published the full report of an exercise that ranked foodborne viruses according to frequency and severity. The first part of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Food and ...

But they can weaken your immune system, and colder, drier air can help respiratory viruses thrive. “That’s actually not an old wives’ tale,” Dr. Winston Rajendram, a family medicine ...