Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. The mystery disease affecting people in the Democratic Republic of ...
A new year might mean new viral threats. Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet ...
Researchers are not just worried about the virus popping up on American farms. Other types are causing trouble around the ...
A deadly, little-known parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, once considered to only be a threat abroad, may be endemic in the United States, researchers argue in a new study. Chagas disease is ...
New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. New research ...
Nipah virus (NiV) is a virus that spreads between animals and people. It is a zoonotic illness that is transmitted to people ...
New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. The findings are ...
Iridoviruses are a diverse group of large, double-stranded DNA viruses responsible for a range of systemic infections in fish. These infections, commonly manifesting as infectious spleen and kidney ...