Nearly half a million Americans visit the emergency room (ER) each year with a fast-spreading stomach bug called norovirus.

While there’s no approved vaccine to prevent norovirus, some are in the testing phase. Researchers are using tiny 3D models ...

Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

The most common symptoms are diarrhea, nausea, stomach pain and vomiting, though it also can cause a fever, head and body ...

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

What is norovirus? The stomach bug is so contagious and it spreads easily this time of year.

As North Carolina illness rates spike post-holidays, here's what to know about the spread of flu, stomach flu and COVID-19.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health research reveals how our bodies keep it under control. The parasite, ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Norovirus spreads fast, hits hard, and thrives in the very places you are used to trusting a quick pump of sanitizer to keep ...