The new “mystery throat virus” can spread through the respiratory tract, shed through stool, and live a while on contaminated ...

A “mystery throat virus” is going around, leaving people down and out for the count — and offering no real treatment.

Adenoviruses are a group of common respiratory viruses that can cause severe cold-like symptoms. It can cause illness in ...

Reports of a spike in HMPV cases in China may conjure eerie similarities to the early weeks of COVID-19, but public health experts say there are crucial differences — mainly that HMPV is a common ...

It’s the season for flu and illnesses, but one virus in particular, adenovirus, has spread rapidly throughout the country ...

Learn more about the common cold, the viruses that cause it, and why it’s so difficult to find a vaccine for it.

Certain viruses could make people more susceptible to heart disease, new research suggests. An independent study showed that people who contracted COVID or influenza faced a "dramatically" greater ...

(CNN) — A seasonal respiratory virus named parvovirus B19 – sometimes also called fifth disease – is increasing in activity, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday.

A study published 30 years ago is striking up new conversation about the potential connection between the common cold sore and Alzheimer’s disease. Published in The Lancet in 1997, researchers ...

A long-term dementia care ward saw an outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus that infected 73 percent of patients, showing the challenges inherent in preventing the spread ...

Washington State University researchers have found a way to modulate a common virus protein to prevent viruses from entering cells where it can cause illness, a discovery that could someday lead to ...