COVID-19 isn’t the only virus that has significantly impacted the planet in the past few years. Avian flu (H5N1), which has devastated the poultry industry and caused a 70% increase in egg prices in ...

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

The rinderpest virus is the second virus to have been eliminated by humans, according to a BBC report. A virus that affected cattle, domestic buffalo, and some species of wildlife, it was quite deadly ...

Herpes B virus (Cercopithecine Herpesvirus 1) is a zoonotic pathogen that can cause fatal encephalomyelitis in humans. The virus naturally infects rhesus monkeys, causing diseases like human herpes ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. It began in Nzara, a town ...

A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer; it appears to evade some of our immunity; has kick-started a flu season ...

After reports that hospitals in China are seeing a spike in cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), people online are wondering about the origin of the virus. Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is not new.

Ethiopia has initiated an emergency response after confirming the first cases of Marburg virus in the country’s history.