The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

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Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza. Medieval ...

Classical antibody boosting effects during vaccination are accompanied by natural broadening mechanisms that help enable human antibodies to engage conserved sites of vulnerability on influenza virus.

Recovery from deadly influenza infection may hinge on helping the lungs heal in addition to stopping the virus, according to ...

Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

Viruses are often seen only as killers—responsible for diseases like HIV, Ebola, and influenza. But what if we told you that without them, you wouldn’t exist? Ancient viruses shaped the evolution of ...

There are reports of this strain of the flu causing more severe illness, and early data suggest that protection against the flu from previous infections or the vaccine is “suboptimal,” according to ...

What are the early signs of Parkinson’s disease? My husband was recently diagnosed after noticing a slight thumb tremor but ...

West Nile Virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental U.S., spreading from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites. While most infected people show no symptoms, about ...