While measles symptoms typically resolve in a few weeks, the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, ...

A young woman has died and another individual remains in intensive care due to infection with the Nipah virus, a rare but potentially deadly pathogen currently under close monitoring by the ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

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Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

First identified in Malaysia in 1999, the Nipah virus has triggered several deadly outbreaks across South and Southeast Asia.

This is not the first time the rare hantavirus has been traced to a National Park, as there were cases in people who had visited Yosemite National Park in 2012.

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Vaccines are one of, if not THE most significant public health achievements. They played a pivotal role in reducing mortality from infectious diseases, once the leading causes of death. Routine ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.