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Influenza kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people worldwide every year. The virus travels efficiently via large airborne droplets, when infected people sneeze, cough or talk. Ed Rybicki’s insight:I thought 400K, but hey, I could...

Here’s good news for anyone affected by chikungunya this year: the virus is unlikely to infect them ever again. This has been confirmed to TOI by virologists from AIIMS who said that the chikungunya...

THURSDAY, Sept. 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) — An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus, and it has proceeded to human safety trials, researchers report. See it on...

Spread the newsBrazil to begin Zika vaccine trials in humans RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil will begin testing a vaccine See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Brazil to begin Zika vaccine trials in...

This post discusses whether you can skip the adapter removal step in NGS data analysisSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Trimming adapter sequences – is it necessary? Source: Viral Bioinformatics

A large and complex outbreak of hepatitis C virus in Valencia, Spain that began 25 years ago led to the prosecution and conviction of an anesthetist who was accused of infecting hundreds of his patients....

Health workers in western Niger are racing to contain an outbreak of Rift Valley fever that has killed at least 21 people over the past month, an aid agency said on Wednesday [21 Sep...

“The risk to the wider population is negligible as the tick that carries CCHF is not established in the UK and it cannot survive here.” Ed Rybicki’s insight:“The risk to the wider population is...

Influenza A virus is characterized by high genetic diversity1, 2, 3. However, most of what is known about influenza evolution has come from consensus sequences sampled at the epidemiological scale4 that only represent the...

A yellow fever outbreak in Angola and Congo has been brought under control by a major vaccination campaign, the World Health Organization’s director of infectious hazard management Sylvie Briand has said. “One (piece of)...