Two suspected Nipah virus cases in West Bengal’s Barasat have put health authorities on high alert. Amid the disease outbreak ...

Unlike HIV or HBV, HCV replicates its genome directly into RNA without a DNA intermediate, so it lacks a latent, nuclear form that defies ready immunological clearance. In order for the virus to exist ...

Some of the main reasons behind the causes of skin infection in a country like India are due to intense heat or cold weather, ...

Chills are common. Respiratory symptoms, such as cough, runny nose and sore throat may also present early. The flu shows up a ...

"How do I know if I have Ebola?" This question might be crossing your mind if you have traveled recently or been in contact with someone who may have the disease. It is important to note that the CDC ...

Samples from a patient who recently developed the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. showed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in the human upper ...

Decades of research have showed scientists what mutations to watch for in the H5N1 virus. The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could ...

An eye infection can manifest as a host of signs that can cause discomfort and pain. Here are the symptoms that need your ...

A team of researchers at Louisiana State University (LSU) In Baton Rouge is investigating equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1), ...

Asymptomatic disease and early progression. The progression of HCV infection to cirrhosis is often asymptomatic and clinically silent. In chronic hepatitis, the correlation of biochemical liver ...