Hospitals on the French Indian Ocean Island of Reunion are reaching breaking point amid a chikungunya virus outbreak that has claimed six lives since January, affecting one out of nine people.

She created a comic in 1999 entitled “The future as I see it” that foresaw a virus wreaking havoc upon the world in 2020, according to Japan Today. “Around 2020, an unknown virus will appear ...

At the time it raised fears the virus could be sweeping silently through the UK. The Clade 1b strain of Mpox, known to be more dangerous and transmissible than its predecessors, has now been ...

This year, thousands more Brits will be vaccinated against a potentially deadly virus that causes flu-like symptoms and results in over 50,000 hospitalisations annually. The Department for Health ...

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The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...

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Scientists have warned there is a 'severe risk' of catching a cold this week as nine million people across Britain suffer from the virus. They issued the health alert as the recent icy weather ...

Levels of the virus, which has already affected 12 hospitals in Scotland, are higher than those recorded in the past, said the Public Health Laboratory Service. The number of people struck down ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have for the first time isolated a giant virus in Finland, Jyvaskylavirus, revealing that these large amoeba‑infecting viruses are more widespread in ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Pediatric infectious diseases experts stress the importance of vaccination against measles, one of the most contagious viruses, which is once more spreading in the United ...

Calculate how much it will cost to vaccinate your livestock against bluetongue virus and how much it could save you using our interactive calculators. Bluetongue is a notifiable animal disease. If you ...