This virus eventually came to be called SIV, the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus - even though it did not cause immunodeficiency in African green monkeys. 2 AIDS was a hot topic at that time ...

He ran a blood test, which confirmed that Ben has primary immunodeficiency. Primary immunodeficiency is a rare, genetic disease. People with PI have an immune system that doesn’t work correctly.

An NHS hospital has been forced to shut its wards to new patients amid a virus outbreak. NHS officials at Belford Hospital in the Highlands warned visitor numbers would need to be restricted due ...

2024 — A research team has found that giving iron supplements to children living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa could be an important first step in optimizing brain ...

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection is implicated in the aetiology of several different lymphoid and epithelial malignancies. EBV-encoded latent genes induce B-cell transformation in vitro by ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(1):13-23. Although funding for microbicide research has been steadily growing, it still lags far behind the resources devoted to the development of HIV ...

May 7, 2025 — Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the ... Shingles Vaccine Lowers the Risk ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Human proteases TMPRSS2 and TMPRSS11D can be ...

Scientists have warned there is a 'severe risk' of catching a cold this week as nine million people across Britain suffer from the virus. They issued the health alert as the recent icy weather ...

Get more HMS news But it takes time to design, manufacture, and distribute a new vaccine, which raises an important question: How can scientists create vaccines for versions of the virus that haven’t ...