Blood culture: A blood culture may be drawn to determine which type of virus or bacteria is causing infection. If you are experiencing a fever when your white blood cell count is low, known as febrile ...

Five years ago, a mysterious new virus emerged in Wuhan, China, marking the start of a global health crisis. Initially nameless, the virus and the illness it caused would eventually ignite a ...

No fewer than 952 Nigerians have been killed by Lassa fever, cholera, measles, diphtheria, and yellow fever in 2024. This is according to data from the National Public Health Institute ...

A quadruple whammy of viruses – flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – is hitting ... medications and home remedies to manage a fever and pain with acetaminophen ...

The authorities contemplate the dispensing of the entire swine population and pork products to make sure that the country is free from the virus for the industry to begin afresh. Swine fever has ...

Here, we describe structures of the Nipah virus L-P polymerase complex and the L-protein’s Connecting Domain (CD). The cryo-electron microscopy L-P complex structure reveals the organization of the ...

headache and fever. Most norovirus outbreaks occur when people who are already infected spread the virus to others by direct means, such as through sharing food or eating utensils. Outbreaks can ...

Valley fever cases are skyrocketing in California, with this year’s tally already far exceeding the number recorded in all of 2023 and set to climb even higher once figures from the typically ...

That leaves a lot of people dealing with coughing, sneezing and fevers. People often take fever reducers to lower their body temperature when they’re sick. But VERIFY reader Richard asked us if ...

Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by an RNA virus from the Flaviviridae family, primarily affecting tropical areas of Africa and South America. Although most cases are asymptomatic ...

While this development has not changed the CDC’s official assessment of risk to the general public, it does indicate that the H5N1 virus is capable of adapting to human airways. If you're ...

Women and girls in Uganda's Bundibugyo district have been suffering from the outbreak of a mysterious virus, with patients experiencing high fever and uncontrollable shaking of the body ...