The Chikungunya virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and causes symptoms like fever and severe joint pain. There is no specific medicine to treat the virus, and the best way to prevent it is by ...

Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which is a small DNA virus from the Hepadnaviridae family. If someone has this infection for a long time, it can lead to ...

Ten years ago, the Zika virus shook Brazil. Thousands of babies were born with severe birth defects. Pregnant women faced constant fear, and public health systems scrambled for answers. While the ...

Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organization ...

A newly emerging respiratory virus called Human Metapneumovirus, HMPV, has been quite in the news for the past year or so regarding its potential spread within a community setting and its significant ...

In the summer of 2023, I connected with an epidemiologist from Kerala. A lush sliver of land along the Indian peninsula’s southwestern edge, it is a place of sleepy backwaters and rolling hills of ...

Although RSV is a frequent cause of acute respiratory infections (ARIs), an estimation of its incidence has proven challenging due to a lack of routine testing, overlapping clinical presentations with ...

Infectious diseases expert talks about rise in West Nile Virus cases in Kentucky. This year, there have been 19 cases of the West Nile Virus across the state. The Lexington-Fayette County Health ...

India has stepped up containment measures after five Nipah virus cases were confirmed in West Bengal. With no vaccine or cure ...

Nipah virus outbreak: As many as 100 people have sent to quarantine in West Bengal to contain the spread of the deadly Nipah ...

Lenacapavir (LEN) is an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and was first approved for individuals with ...