Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

A new mutated variant of Mpox has been identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, with health authorities concerned over ...

Andy Harries, the founder and CEO of Sony-owned Left Bank Pictures and an exec producer on its hit show “The Crown,” is to transition to an executive chairman role after 18 years at the helm ...

A Chinese team of virologists has found that this virus carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was ...

Extensive coronavirus research has led to the discovery of a new bat virus called HKU5-CoV-2. According to a new study published in the medical journal Cell, the new virus can enter human cells using ...

Can the new bat virus, HKU5-CoV-2, lead to another pandemic? According to Chinese researchers, the new coronavirus potentially transmits from animals to humans, and has reignited concerns about the ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

The NHS website provides images of each stage to help identify what phase a person might be in with the virus, reports the Mirror. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella ...

Norovirus is a common and very contagious virus. (Image Credits: Pixabay) A suspected norovirus outbreak on the P&O cruise ship has led to passengers “dropping like flies”. Reportedly ...

Photographer Tom Nickels watched the scene from a safe distance on a boat and snapped a captivating image (seen above) of the moment. Nickels’ photograph took gold in the Behavior-Mammals ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China. The discovery was made by a team of virologists led by Shi ...

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