Browsing: virus

September 12, 20253 min readChild’s Death Shows How Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after an InfectionA child in Los Angeles County has died from…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the…

There has been a significant increase in the number of UK cases of a mosquito-borne virus that can cause sudden fever and joint pain and is…

August 10, 20253 min readHow the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can…

There is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the…

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterUniversity Hospital SouthamptonCeri Cox’s two-year-old son Harry took part in a trial of the injectionThousands of premature babies in the UK can now be…

Stewart Whittingham & Ewan GawneBBC News, LiverpoolGetty ImagesSeventeen children have been treated at Alder Hey for the disease since JuneA child has died at Liverpool’s Alder…

BBCI’m on the hunt for a microbial saviour – a type of virus that can treat infections rather than cause them.We all know the viral bad…

Sofia Ferreira SantosBBC NewsPhilippa RoxbyHealth reporterGetty ImagesThe fragments were found in two samples of Aedes vexans mosquitoes, the health security agency saidWest Nile virus, which mainly…