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 isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

A child died in Texas after contracting measles. It was the first measles death in the United States since 2015, according to the CDC. The virus was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000.

From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Expert Rev Vaccines. 2013;12(9):1085-1094. It became obvious that it was necessary to modify regularly the composition of the vaccine, and that it was necessary to use vaccine strains selected ...