How long diseases like measles and the flu linger in the air — after an infected person has left the room

Research shows that many viruses can linger in the air and on surfaces long after an infected person has left the room — ...
BioWorld

New research links 22 genes to chronic diseases caused by Epstein-Barr virus

An Anglo-American team of researchers has devised a new computational method for quantifying Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) directly from human genome sequences and used this to identify 22 genes that link ...
Medscape

Global Health in Transition as Chronic Diseases Rise

New Global Burden of Disease data show sustained mortality declines; however, noncommunicable diseases, climate exposure, and ...
Science Daily

Compelling data point to a single, unknown respiratory virus as cause of Kawasaki disease

New research strongly suggests that Kawasaki disease is caused by a single respiratory virus that is yet to be identified. Findings contradict the theory that many different pathogens or toxins could ...
Labroots

Oropouche Virus - The Disease Has Caused Two Deaths in Brazil

Oropouche virus (OROV) causes Oropouche fever (OROF); the first case was identified in a forest worker in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955. Since then, it has caused at least half a million infections in ...
Yahoo

Chagas disease, a deadly infection caused by ‘kissing bugs,’ may have taken root in the U.S., researchers say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eastern bloodsucking conenose kissing bug. (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) A deadly, little-known ...
Earth.com

Long lost disease related to syphilis discovered inside a 5,500-year-old skeleton

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...