The five file types listed above are commonly known to contain viruses. However, just about any file type can potentially contain malicious functionality; malicious image files like JPGs ...

Earlier this month, the US government announced a US$500 million (£377 million) investment to accelerate research into ...

This virus was named Influenza B and the inactivated influenza vaccine had to be bivalent to provide protection against both types of influenza viruses (Figure 1). Thus, in 1942, 10,000 doses of ...

Scientists in Uruguay have found genotypes of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer in urban wastewater, saying it could help inform disease prevention efforts.

Although numerous strains of influenza viruses may cause clinically indistinguishable forms of "grippe," the various agents may be reduced by serologic technics to two important types of virus ...

A type of virus thought to be a "mere curiosity" is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a Monash University-led research team has found. The discovery improves understanding of ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...