Setting an animated GIF as your wallpaper on a Mac can add a dynamic and personalized touch to your desktop. However, macOS does not natively support animated GIFs as wallpapers, so you will need ...

Scientists in China believe they've discovered a novel tickborne germ that can infect and sicken people, dubbed the Wetland ...

A disease which can kill cats, both domestic and wild, has been discovered for the first time in the US. A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a ...

A mutation on the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19 could help it infect the brain by forcing it to use a cellular "back door." SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was briefly hospitalized after contracting the West Nile virus. Fauci, who also served as the ...

The WHO recommended vector control and protection against the bites of sandflies, mosquitoes and ticks to prevent the further spread of Chandipura virus. The WHO has recently said the current ...

Update: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 27 August that more than 20 US travellers returning from Cuba have been identified as having Oropouche virus. Once confined to the ...

U.S. health officials are warning travelers about a potentially deadly insect-borne virus known as sloth fever that has infected 21 U.S. residents returning from Cuba and thousands more in South ...

When Dr. Anthony Fauci became infected with West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, it was so severe that he had to be hospitalized. Fauci, once the top US infectious disease expert ...

By the end of the month, the genetic tree tracing the virus' evolution revealed an explosive epidemic. Virologist Gavin Smith, who leads Duke-NUS' Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme ...

More than 8,000 cases of Oropouche virus have been reported this year as of August 1. Most have been in South America, but infections are also spreading in countries where it hasn’t been seen ...