Viruses

Bird flu (Avian influenza) is a viral disease that not only affects birds such as chicken, ducks and geese, but also animals and humans when they come in direct contact with these infected poultry. When infected, humans get symptoms in around ...

Stomach flu, also known as gastroenteritis, is the infection of the stomach and intestines caused by viruses. People often confuse stomach flu with food poisoning. Though the symptoms (diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and stomach pain) of both the conditions are almost the ...

With the spread of COVID-19, health experts and researchers are continuously involved in finding the origin of the virus and its transmission to humans. To mention, COVID-19 is a type of coronavirus which is zoonotic. Meaning, the viruses get transmitted to ...

Your child's chances of developing Type I diabetes may depend on the diversity of viruses present in his or her intestines, researchers say.Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease in which one's own immune system destroys the cells needed to ...

A common lung virus called Respiratory Synctytial Virus (RSV), which causes wheezing and pneumonia takes the lives of up to two hundred thousand children worldwide annually, warns the researchers from the University of Edinburgh. RSV infects most children before the age ...

Scientists from Imperial College London, University of Reading and University of North Carolina, USA conducted a study to find out why bird flu did not become a pandemic. They say that bird flu viruses would have to undergo ...

By now, one must have got well acquainted with the epidemic, swine flu, which is caused by the strain of influenza virus found in pigs. The same is called swine influenza virus (S.I.V.). Since the time this has ...

Incidence of cervical cancer among teenagers has seen a significant increase over the past few years, and is still increasing, suggests a new study. ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in AIDS research by identifying a protein, called CAML (calcium-modulating cyclophilin ligand), that inhibits the release of HIV-1 virus from human cells, thus aiding in the fight against HIV by finding new treatments. ...

Hyderabad, Oct 18 (UNI) Dismissing as mere 'rumours' that mosquitoes could carry HIV virus, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today made it clear that mosquitoes could not carry the virus. He urged people not to get mislead by ...