Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

Anti-vaccine campaigns have often targeted the M.M.R. vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Experts tend to worry most about a resurgence of measles. The virus is ...

The samples were tested for a wide range of respiratory pathogens, including HMPV, COVID-19, influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenovirus, rhinovirus, enterovirus and ...

By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen covers global health. Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic almost exactly ...

HMPV causes flu-like symptoms. The virus usually affects the upper respiratory system but can sometimes cause lower respiratory infections. HMPV is more common in winter and early spring.

Known pathogens like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), SARS-CoV-2, and HMPV are causing the surge. HMPV cases saw an upward trend among those aged 14 and under, especially in northern ...

This means that children born between 2019 and 2021, and those aged five to 14 who hadn’t been infected before 2020, missed natural exposure to the wild-type rubella virus and vaccination.