Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

Read the latest edition of Cyber Signals to learn how Microsoft is protecting its platforms and customers from AI-enhanced ...

A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

62% cases with neurological syndrome 19% cases with non-neurological syndrome 19% cases not specified 2 deaths 6 asymptomatic cases 3 travel-related human cases acquired outside of Canada or travel ...

Decoy Therapeutics Inc. has announced that a series of antiviral drug candidates previously designed by its Imp3act platform to be broadly effective against viruses of the paramyxoviridae family have ...

Britain has outlined four dangerous emerging viruses which could become the so-called “Disease X” to cause the next pandemic. The UKHSA risk rating specifically factors in the danger each ...

You might not have heard of them, but these are among virus families at high risk of causing the next pandemic, according to a threat list released by the government. The UK Health Security Agency ...

The list — which includes viruses that cause flu, Ebola and Zika as well as bacterial threats — aims to encourage targeted research into new diagnostic methods, vaccines and treatments that ...

Health officials have published a new list of viruses and bacteria they say pose the greatest threat to public health. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says its "priority pathogen" guide is ...