Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the viruses that can cause haemorraghic fever, a severe infectious disease characterized by high fever and bleeding, in humans and some monkeys.

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

Dengue virus is an infectious agent that causes the tropical disease dengue fever in humans. This virus species is transmitted by mosquitoes (arthropods) and thus is an arbovirus. Comprehensive ...

A major health alert has been issued for anyone who has visited a major city in the last 10 days after several cases of a potentially life-threatening disease were confirmed. Over the past three ...

Itchy skin, or pruritus, can be a symptom of liver disease. However, not everyone with liver disease experiences itching, and the specific causes of this itching are unknown. Treatment for itching ...

It also showed up to 75 percent neutralization of the HSV-1 virus and up to 94 percent of the HSV-2 virus – the two most common herpes viruses out there. Neutralization means that the virus is less ...

The highly contagious measles virus – which has claimed the life of a second child in Texas – has spread east, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting measles cases in ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years ...

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Public health officials in California announced three people have died from hantavirus, the virus linked to the February death of Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa. The deaths occurred in the ...

Fatty liver disease by itself is unlikely to cause sudden death. However, it can cause complications that can potentially lead to death. The liver is the body’s primary detoxifying organ.

After further analysis, the researchers found the drug relies on lysosomes, which are one of the cells' major recycling centers, and on an enzyme called cathepsin B. In Alzheimer's disease, this ...