Acquiring Immunity - Viruses/Immunity Set - Part 3, This clip offers a step by step look at how the human body develops immunity to infectious diseases.

Health officials in Orange County, Florida have issued a public advisory warning residents of an increase of mosquitoes carrying the Eastern equine encephalitis virus.

The AIDS Memorial quilt is a community art project that changed the world’s perception of HIV and AIDs.

The virus's outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the latest to hit Africa. The FT's Bernadeta Dadonaite tracks the history of the virus over the decades.

You sent us your nano questions, and we answered! In this Ask a Scientist – Nano Edition, we join nano expert Nicole Steinmetz, from Case Western Reserve.



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Scientists from China have found a virus with “pandemic potential” that is related to the swine flu.

Now that we’ve been dealing with Covid-19 for over a year, we have a lot of information to help us understand the kinds of patterns that have emerged. While no one has been left untouched, some communities and groups bore a larger brunt...

Congo is in the grip of another Ebola outbreak, which has killed up to 400 people. There is no effective treatment for the deadly virus, but pioneering drug trials are under way

This nugget describes the characteristic features of viruses, viroids and prions. It explains the contributions of different scientist and also provides examples of various types of viruses.

A lot of the stats coming out about Coronavirus directly compare countries' death tolls and infection rates, looking to see which nation has been hit hardest and who's reacted the best. The problem is that Trump & Johnson (who lead the...

During the pandemic, many American workers have been forced to choose between their health and their jobs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Columbia University, argues that a...

Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...

Understanding Viruses - Viruses/Immunity Set - Part 1. This clip offers a simplified look at how viruses are structured and how they infect living host cells.

This program helps children to understand they need to beware of engaging online with people you don't know or recognize. Through a series of short videos, viewers will learn to be cautious of online offers that are free, or seem too...

Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...

Zika is a virus that has been making the news lately, particularly due to its capacity for in utero transmission in pregnant women which has the potential to cause a birth defect called microcephaly. What is this virus? Where did it come...

Each year we are flooded with large ad campaigns encouraging us to get our flu shots. Most of us probably wonder why. The flu doesn’t seem that bad, right? But then, every few years, a deadly bout of swine flu, or bird flu spreads...

Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...

Last night the World Health Organisation officially classified the COVID-19 virus (or Coronavirus) as a Pandemic. In this video, we discuss why they made this decision, what a pandemic is and why it matters.

In 1918 and 1919, the world took on a new, invisible enemy: the so-called "Spanish flu" pandemic sweeping the globe. The pandemic left tens of millions of casualties in its wake as it devastated one community after another. Given the...

We live in a time where there is much skepticism towards modern medicine. This stems purely from ignorance, however, and there are those who capitalize on this to sell an unbelievable array of alternative medicines that, almost without...

Lunar New Years’ festivities pose a great challenge for the Chinese government as it tries to contain the Wuhan coronavirus. <br/>

The world is swarming with deadly pandemics, epidemics, diseases, and the history of humanity can certainly attest to this fact. There have been many instances spanning our existence of historic epidemics that threatened humanity.

Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's -- why do some diseases still plague us? And can we cure them?