The World Health Ogranization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

Despite technological advancements, 2.6 billion people globally remain offline due to geographical isolation, political ...

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

Federally funded Johns Hopkins team finds the virus ‘reprograms’ neutrophils to impair production of immune cells critical ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

In a study recently published in the Clinical Immunology journal, researchers found that the vaccine not only targeted the COVID-19 virus, it also unexpectedly helped to reduce and control innate ...

China is blaming the United States for the origin of COVID-19, accusing Washington of "evading responsibility" for the virus amid multiple statements by President Donald Trump that it was leaked ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows. Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in ...