Cold germs from someone’s nose or cough can live on surfaces for hours to days, depending on many factors. Learn which ...

Mpox, Covid-19, even SARS back in the early 2000s. Outbreaks seems to happen almost every year, to varying degrees of ...

Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) located H5N1 bird flu virus in samples of raw, or unpasteurized, milk in ...

Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...

Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Some phages follow a lytic life cycle where they inject their DNA into the host cell and hijack its mechanisms to reproduce. When the number of ...

When a white blood cell finds a germ, it latches onto it. Then it changes its shape to surround the germ. You can imagine the ...

Researchers have discovered a virus that could enter human cells in a similar way to COVID-19. But they caution it's much ...

For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...