It soon emerged that she had been infected with West Nile virus disease. It's not a new illness: the first case was detected in Uganda in 1937, but since then, thousands of cases have been ...

Indeed, all pathogenic filovirus species known so far, including Ebola and Marburg virus, share a conserved nucleocapsid structure, says Watanabe. She's now leading further research to study ...

A patient thought to be suffering from Nipah infection is moved to an isolation ward in Kozhikode Medical College in the southern state of Kerala, India,on July 20 (Picture: Reuters) A student has ...

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Researchers in China have discovered a new tick-borne illness, Wetland virus. Research shows it has the potential to invade the brain. Right now, China is the only country with cases. That’s the ...

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A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology isolated the virus from that patient and later identified it as WELV, Fox News reports. A new virus has been ...