Browsing: Virus

October 29, 20253 min readThis Overlooked Bird Flu Strain Might Be the Next Pandemic RiskExperiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person…

Support for this article was provided by the Pulitzer Center.Last month, a parade of vehicles wound its way through three cities in Brazil, releasing clouds of…

September 12, 20253 min readChild’s Death Shows How Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after an InfectionA child in Los Angeles County has died from…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the…

August 10, 20253 min readHow the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can…

There is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the…

Remember those old I’m a Mac, I’m a PC ads? In one, the Mac looks on, concerned, while the PC keeps sneezing from a virus it’s…