Verifying viral virus truths: Tomatoes, tiranga and TRPs

The media wrongly claimed a correlation between a mysterious alleged new virus that targets tomatoes to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

New, more virulent HIV strain reported in the Netherlands 40 years after pandemic began

The new HIV variant is a cause for concern since these are figures for a country with high awareness about and monitoring of the disease

New influenza virus isolated in pigs in China has pandemic potential

Human-to-human transmission possible, pre-existing immunity against flu of no help

Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre

Patient stable, under observation in isolation

Emerging infectious diseases in India: the scourge that could boost urban development

The rise of these infectious diseases is often described in terms of biological processes, but they cannot be reduced to just this dimension

Researchers identified over 5,500 new viruses in the ocean, including a missing link in viral evolution

RNA viruses can cause deadly diseases. But they also play a vital role in ecosystems because they can infect a wide array of organisms, including …

Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Enthusiasm for game meat to have prime impact on human health’

Human encounters with new viruses have increased significantly in the past decade, says Nirmal Kumar Gali from Hong Kong University of Science …

Coronavirus: Expert fears global epidemic

Human-to-human transfer can lead to local epidemics, independent of Wuhan: Hong Kong expert

Mosquito bite research: could slapping on some cream help stop Zika?

Inflammation caused by mosquito bites helps viruses to infect the body

HIV-related stigma, discrimination persists in work world, reveals global survey

Less than half of people surveyed in India said people living with HIV should be allowed to work directly with people who do not have HIV

COVID-19: WHO has only $1.2 mln to fight outbreak

More international economic groups confirmed initial assessments that  China's economy is going to dip because of the COVID-19 outbreak  

COVID-19: Egypt, South Africa, Algeria at highest risk in Africa

Labs ill-equipped, health systems lack isolation and quarantine facilities: Lancet paper

Vaccine-derived polio virus found 50 times in India in six years

The vaccine-derived polio virus is a rare strain of polio virus that has genetically mutated from the strain contained in the oral polio vaccine

COVID-19 cut China's carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter: Report

COVID-19 may have shaved off more than 100 tonnes of CO2 in the early February 2020

Swine Flu virus changing seasonality, geography

Not just geography and seasonality, even the age group seems to be shifting with more and more children getting affected by the virus

The Olympics won’t spread Zika around the world

The chance that someone at the Rio games will import the virus to their home country is low

The flu is back

Swine flu cases in Gujarat have crossed 7,000 with 492 deaths. Worse, health experts fear a major outbreak in the state this winter

China reports first human death from Monkey B Virus

The 53-year-old veterinary surgeon was infected after he dissected two dead monkeys early March

Marburg in Guinea: The value of lessons from managing other haemorrhagic outbreaks

Viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head in Africa amid COVID-19 pandemic. To date, 14 outbreaks of Marburg virus disease have …

China confirms human-to-human transmission for coronavirus

WHO to convene emergency meeting on January 22, 2020

Coronavirus update: Pakistan tally at 1,000

India death toll may be at 10

Twin studies pave way for Ebola, Zika and dengue treatment

Researchers use protein-to-protein interaction between viruses and human cells to narrow down on potential treatment targets

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

Coronavirus: Passengers from China to be screened at Indian airports, advisory issued

Second death in China; second case in Thailand reported

How liver protein can aid in developing vaccine for hepatitis C

More than 70 million globally are affected by chronic hepatitis C virus, increasing the risk for the more fatal liver cancer or cirrhosis