New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...
Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...
Mount Sinai researchers have developed a method to uncover the hidden immune cells that harbor the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a discovery that brings medical experts one step closer to a cure ...
Cases in the ongoing measles outbreak have risen to 258 across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and state health departments ...
Amid the outbreak of measles in West Texas, there's a question of how contagious the disease is—and whether it will spread in ...
As of March 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a total of 222 measles cases in 12 jurisdictions: ...
Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate.
Measles was thought to be eliminated two decades ago. But growing mistrust in vaccines has changed that, and now some people ...
The incubation period of rubella is 14 to 18 days, with a range of 12 to 23 days, according to DSHS. The disease spreads when the virus goes airborne from "respiratory secretions" of a person ...
Once you are infected, the virus remains in your body for life. It embeds itself in nerve cells where it mostly remains in a latent (dormant) state. Occasionally, the virus can reactivate, causing ...