Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

Bannan had faced his share of tough cases, including working for the task force that established that a scientist at Fort ...

To provide a deeper understanding of the origins of these infectious threats, the 2024 Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) report from Impact Global Health categorises the deadliest pathogens into six ...

A new model reveals how molecular interactions drive order in active systems. Scientists from the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ...

Historians say this was the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that would later spread worldwide. For decades, the origins of syphilis have remained a mystery. The ...

But through the history of Christmas tales are so benign. Even among the many fascinating histories of Christmas folklore, few are as intriguing – or macabre – in origin as the legend of the Yule Cat, ...

At the beginning of the 2018–2020 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), no vaccine had been licensed. However, cluster-randomized evidence from ...

But the scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis — including ... lesions and pin down the evolutionary history of syphilis. It is particularly hard to get ahold ...