COVID-19 can stay on clothes and other surfaces for a few hours up to a few days. SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID—is primarily spread through respiratory droplets from talking, sneezing, or ...

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U.S. health officials are on high alert and looking for any cases of the new omicron variant. Questions are also being raised if this new variant will overtake delta. Dr. Otto Yang, a leading ...

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables HIV-1 to evade the body's natural defenses and use it to support its survival and replication. The 'loophole' is a biological ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), can change the 3D structure of ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT ...

Researchers are seeing an uptick in cases, as they have every summer since the pandemic began. Here’s why. By Dani Blum Covid cases are climbing again this summer. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

COVID cases are climbing again this summer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s forecasting model estimates that infections are growing, or likely growing, in most states. While the ...