virology
The Little-Known Virus Causing a Panic Over Infant Brain Deformities in Brazil
The crisis is stark example of how difficult it still is to predict and control an epidemic.
Ethical Questions Arise After Scientists Brew Super Powerful 'SARS 2.0' Virus
Creating powerful new viruses has benefits and dangers.
Microbiologists Find Another 30,000 Year Old Giant Virus in Siberian Permafrost
Global warming threatens to unleash a whole universe of once-frozen bad stuff.
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'Post-Treatment Controllers' Offer a Glint of Hope for a Functional HIV Cure
Some patients are able to stop antiviral therapy and remain healthy. No one quite knows why.
HIV Under Castro
A look at the country’s highly successful and ethically complicated relationship with the virus.
A New Flu Drug Works Astoundingly Well—By Not Targeting the Flu at All
Vasculotide buys the immune system time, which may be all it needs.
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How to Name a Disease
A lack of naming guidelines for new diseases has led to some troublesome monikers.
Happy Birthday to the ‘Greatest Public Health Experiment in History’
The Salk polio vaccine goes to trial in a Pittsburg elementary school.
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