A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Finland's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, shows these viruses are more widespread than thought and play key roles in ...

Jyvaskylavirus is detailed in a study recently published in eLife, and named for Jyväskylä, the Finnish city where it was ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Finnish scientists have identified the country's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, in local soil. The virus infects amoebas ...

Two-year-old girl in Andhra Pradesh dies from H5N1; NIV delays sharing genome data, unlike NIHSAD, raising concerns about virus spread.

Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce ...