Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. The mystery disease affecting people in the Democratic Republic of ...
A recent medical report has forced doctors and parents to confront measles’s long-term complications in children again. In ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eastern bloodsucking conenose kissing bug. (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) A deadly, little-known ...
New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. New research ...
Sacramento health officials sounded the alarm about a potential measles outbreak on Monday after more than 100 children were exposed to an unvaccinated child at an educational enrichment program. It’s ...
Kissing bug disease, which causes everything from a furious, excruciating itch to a sudden stroke or deadly heart attack, is endemic in the United States, a new report said. In other words, Chagas ...
Oropouche virus (OROV) causes Oropouche fever (OROF); the first case was identified in a forest worker in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955. Since then, it has caused at least half a million infections in ...
Iridoviruses are a diverse group of large, double-stranded DNA viruses responsible for a range of systemic infections in fish. These infections, commonly manifesting as infectious spleen and kidney ...