However, the Stanford team utilized a natural experiment created by Wales’ shingles vaccination policy. Starting on September ...

Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox and shingles, while herpes simplex virus (HSV) is responsible for oral and genital herpes. Although current treatments mainly focus on inhibiting viral ...

This color-enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) shows the varicella zoster virus (VZV), a virus in the Herpesviridae family that causes chickenpox in children and shingles (herpes ...

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

A recent study posits that the vaccine for herpes zoster, also known as shingles ... The vaccination directly lowered dementia risk by reducing reactivation of the dormant varicella virus, thereby ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

A new study has found that getting vaccinated against shingles may reduce the risk of developing dementia by 20% over seven years. This conclusion comes from a natural experiment in Wales, where ...

Both shingles and chickenpox are caused by the same virus: varicella-zoster virus (VZV). This VZV is no ordinary virus. It can lie dormant for decades in nerve tissue after causing chickenpox ...

Dr. Lara Johnson, chief medical officer, said the patients reported using vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus. Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s former vaccine chief, said ...

Three people in the rural California town of Mammoth Lakes have died from the same rare virus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife causing alarm amongst health officials. Betsy Arakawa, the famed ...