Home > Press release: Just breathe: fighting viral respiratory ... A research team at MHH wants to use the CRISPR-Cas13 system to cut up viral RNA and thus stop the pathogens from multiplying. The ...

A new study shows that while RSV mostly affects younger kids, the often-overlooked human metapneumovirus also hospitalizes ...

Dairy cattle H5N1 virus remains adapted to birds, with little sign of human spread by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

West Nile virus is usually spread through the bite of an infected mosquito during the summer and fall. Your best bet to avoid the virus is to avoid mosquito bites when possible.

It is in the same family as the human parainfluenza viruses and mumps and measles viruses. The virus normally accounts for 20,000 hospital admissions in under-ones in the UK.

Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are also members of the family Paramyxoviridae. There are four types, two of which are classified in the Respirovirus genus (HPIV-1 and -3) and two of which ...

Researchers found that respiratory viruses like RSV can persist in lung immune cells long after initial infection, creating inflammation that leads to chronic lung disease.

Animals get a pretty bad rap when it comes to spreading viruses. After all, some of the most well-known infectious diseases in humans – think COVID-19, Ebola, or swine flu – are the result of ...

The study will examine how the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads between humans and wildlife, such as white-tailed deer.