Humans have been fighting viruses since the species has existed. For some viral diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs have prevented widespread infection or helped people recover. And we've even been ...

The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...

Researchers have proposed a new evolutionary model for the origin of a kingdom of viruses called Bamfordvirae, suggesting a billion-years evolutionary arms race between two groups within this kingdom ...

Michael Oldstone was just 11 years old when he read a book that influenced his life’s work — Paul de Kreuf’s “Microbe Hunters,” about the scientists who tracked the microscopic villains that caused ...

The drill site on Guliya Glacier, where researchers obtained an ice core representing 41,000 years of history. Lonnie G. Thompson When a team of scientists—accompanied by yaks and yak ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu* killed more than 50 ...

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...