An immune system defect makes affected individuals vulnerable to severe viral diseases such as influenza or COVID-19. It is ...

Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and long-term hepatitis B infections that last longer ...

Federal budget cuts this week have undercut research at the University of Minnesota that was closing in on a better COVID-19 antiviral therapy and first-ever treatments for Ebola and other threatening ...

Emerging data suggest that antiviral therapy in the third trimester can prevent immunoprophylaxis failure. To minimize fetal exposure to antiviral agents, antiviral therapy during pregnancy should ...

The withdrawal is risking lives globally and threatening to unravel decades of progress made toward ending AIDS as a public ...

A death from hantavirus has been confirmed in the town of Mammoth Lakes, the second within a month. The announcement ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Kumamoto University in Japan, have assessed a new rapid diagnostic test to identify pregnant women at elevated risk of transmitting ...

After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, ...

An immune system defect makes affected individuals vulnerable to severe viral diseases such as influenza or COVID-19. It is caused by the body's own antibodies, which inhibit important defense ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...