More than 840 million people around the world under age 50 are living with genital herpes, according to a new study that ...

Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including ...

An international team of virologists, mammalian ecologists and zoologists has uncovered the evolutionary origins of the ...

The Louisiana Department of Healthy has detected the first presumptive positive case of bird flu. According to LDH, a ...

With her oncologists’ approval, she made herself a test subject and worked with colleagues to inject herself with two types of viruses that she cultivated in a lab, the science journal Nature ...

Adults and older children undergoing reinfection probably constitute an important source of infection for susceptible infants. For this reason it would be desirable to develop immunoprophylactic ...

Published online December 12 in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species—the host of the phage—can maintain a diverse community of competing phage ...