Adenovirus in adults While adenovirus infections most often affect kids, adults can get them, too. As with children, symptoms are usually mild and most often affect the respiratory system.

Although adenovirus has been linked to severe liver failure, it’s not been adenovirus 41 but types 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. Plus, these cases almost always happen in patients with suppressed immune ...

A runny nose, cough, sore throat, breathing problems, fever, headache, diarrhea: If you came down with these symptoms in the middle of winter, you’d probably assume it’s the flu and take to ...

Two new papers add to the circumstantial evidence that a common childhood virus might be involved in the rare hepatitis cases, but many questions remain.