Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.

Doctors have revealed an extremely rare case that saw the Covid vaccine reawaken a deadly virus inside a man's body. The unnamed 47-year-old had been living with a dormant tuberculosis infection ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...

Have a Turkish bath: The flu virus can linger in the body for five to six weeks after the symptoms have cleared. According to Professor Ron Eccles, a specialist in cold and flu research ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Although measles is seen as a contagious viral disease that passes quickly, it can also cause damage that leaves long-term ...

The tragic deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betty Arakawa have brought hantavirus into the spotlight – but what is it and how can it be prevented?

MIS-C is a serious inflammatory shock that affects children. It can occur several weeks after a COVID infection and can be life-threatening. Until now, however, the precise cause of the condition was ...

In addition to causing several types of cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to bring a significantly increased risk of ...

Laboratory studies have further shown that Zika virus can infect and kill human fetal brain cells growing in cell culture and also in mice. By April 2016, the body of accumulated evidence was strong ...