The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

Scientists have identified 22 genes that explain why one common virus leaves many people unharmed but puts others at risk of ...

Who knows why different people have different symptoms with the common cold? Well, a new study used laboratory-grown noses ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Respiratory viruses are usually most active from October through March, health officials say.

Certain viruses could make people more susceptible to heart disease, new research suggests. An independent study showed that people who contracted COVID or influenza faced a "dramatically" greater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Mama, I just threw up,” my 8-year-old son recently told me. He had just gotten over a stomach virus a few months prior, so I was ...

A common virus that infects most people can trigger the chronic immune system condition lupus, according to a new study. Nearly 5 million people worldwide suffer from the autoimmune disease in which a ...

Whenever you turn on the news these days, you must have seen headlines flashing the word ‘Nipah virus’. This is because as of ...

Nipah virus may begin like a mild illness but can quickly turn fatal. Dr Dip Narayan Mukherjee, Consultant – Microbiology and ...

Confirmed cases of the Nipah virus in India have triggered swift action across the region, with health authorities emphasizing the importance of early ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.