Viruses that cause measles and the common cold do not produce false-positive COVID-19 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests, contrary to posts circulating widely online. A ...

The increasing use of high-throughput sequencing methods in research, agriculture and healthcare provides an opportunity for the cost-effective surveillance of viral diversity and investigation of ...

You might not have heard of them, but these are among virus families at high risk of causing the next pandemic, according to a threat list released by the government. The UK Health Security Agency ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

Just three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmark declaration: A "novel coronavirus" that had first been identified in China had spread to a degree ...