Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

President Trump has called April 2 ‘the big one,’ when retaliatory tariffs are set to hit. Wall Street and Washington are ...

Yahoo News spoke with Joe Farina, 54, who has been living with long COVID for five years. Now he's making a comeback, and ...

Researchers have uncovered a shocking connection between herpes and dementia, sparking concerns about how infections we acquire earlier in life might shape our brain health as we age. A recent study ...

A combination of imaging techniques reveals how herpes simplex virus type 1 assembles within infected cells, highlighting the roles of essential viral proteins in viral assembly and exit.

An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...

Influenza A viruses rapidly adjust their shape when placed in conditions that reduce infection efficiency, such as the presence of antiviral antibodies or host incompatibility. A virus' shape is ...

The pandemic started with paper hearts and 8 p.m. howls, but devolved into conspiracy theories and anger as we grew more ...

Food, then, became a convenient way to communicate the appearance of the body – in health and in sickness. This practice is known as eponymophilia and it continues today, particularly in pathology – ...

The key problem, it turns out, is HIV's broad genetic diversity and how fast it mutates. In short, the virus shape-shifts too much and comes in too many variants for traditional vaccines to target it ...