Chennai: Getting admission to commerce and computer-related courses in the city may get tough as colleges have received a high number of applications for BCom, BCA and BSc computer science this year - ...

161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many ...

Editor's note: Further updates on the hantavirus cluster can be found on Live Science's live blog, which will provide the latest information on the ongoing investigation. Confirmed and suspected cases ...

One might think the recent outbreaks of hantavirus aboard the Hondius and norovirus on the Ambition would rattle Colleen McDaniel’s enthusiasm for the mode of travel. Not so. “I’m currently on a ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way they do on Earth. In microgravity, infections still occurred, but both ...

Doctors say that the virus, which is rare, can quickly progress from flulike symptoms to something far more serious. By Simar Bajaj and Nina Agrawal Jordan Herbst was 14 years old when he came down ...

Some call it the stomach flu or a stomach bug, but in reality, Norovirus is not the flu at all. It is, however, the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea for people in the U.S. According to the CDC, ...

Audio Timeline Slider: Use the left or right arrow keys to decrease or increase the slider value. Either way, Andes’ spread is not particularly efficient, says Bradfute. Unlike measles and Covid, ...

At least 11 passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are reported to have the Andes strain of hantavirus. Of the 18 Americans who were on board and are now in quarantine facilities in the U.S., at ...

An elderly man had just started running a fever when he walked into a birthday party in the Argentine village of Epuyen in 2018. That began the last "super-spreader" event of the Andes strain of ...

I learned about hantavirus misinformation this week in the same way I now learn about most public health misinformation: My followers sent it to me. Within hours of the first headlines about a ...