CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (HIV-2) remains a unique entity in the landscape of HIV research due to its distinct epidemiological and clinical characteristics. Predominantly confined to West ...

When a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza virus emerged in US dairy cattle in March, scientists around the world had a slew of questions about the virus’s characteristics. In a new paper ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

A study published Monday provides new evidence that the H5N1 virus currently causing an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cattle may be adapted to better infecting humans than other circulating ...

Viruses rely on hosts to survive. But some viruses are more effective at reproducing than others. Now, new research has shown that the herpes virus, more specifically herpes simplex virus type 1 ...

An international team has found a new RNA virus that they believe is hitching a ride with a common human parasite. The virus is associated with severe inflammation in humans infected with the parasite ...

Bird flu viruses appear to replicate and thrive at temperatures higher than a typical fever—one of the body’s key protective ways of stopping viruses. This threat to human health has been outlined in ...

A brand new virus, which may be able to jump to humans, has been detected in a mouse in Florida. The virus is a type of jeilongvirus, which have previously only been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and ...