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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a skin rash in humans -- called RusV was discovered in a female mountain lion in Douglas County, Colorado ...

Tesla's driver-assist software relies on hundreds of data annotators to train it. The team labels thousands of short clips and images from customer cars. Business Insider spoke with 17 former and ...

Oropouche virus is also known as ‘sloth fever’ but is found in a number of other animals in the wild (Credit: Getty Images) A mysterious virus once confined to the Amazon is now spreading more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News that Anthony Fauci, long-time former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering from a bad bout of West Nile virus fever throws a spotlight on a disease ...