Many people are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and most are unaware of it. However, EBV can sometimes cause ...

The Epstein-Barr virus — a well-established risk factor for MS — is able to alter the movements of immune cells, a new study ...

When any infectious interloper hits, the body’s first responders ... won’t fully thwart them. A change to the equivalent of a virus’s elbow, for example, will have little impact on a ...

Several studies have shown COVID can also reactivate the Epstein-Barr virus, which has remained in the body in a latent state ... potentially trigger long-term changes in the immune system.

Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long ... sometimes invisible changes in different parts of the body. Some of these effects, such as chronic fatigue ...

Maybe the virus isn't entirely gone. Maybe there are viral reservoirs hiding in the body. And with each new piece of evidence, the case for this is getting stronger. Take the findings of David ...

The hepatitis C virus can live outside the body in some circumstances ... blood dried naturally within 4 hours, and that this change can make blood spots or drops less noticeable.

West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne virus first identified in Uganda in 1937. It belongs to the same viral family as dengue ...

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract. “ ...

The coronavirus behind the 2019-2022 pandemic causes an illness called COVID-19. A virus infects your body by entering healthy cells. There, the invader makes copies of itself and multiplies ...