West Nile cases typically surge in the summer heat. Here’s how to protect yourself from this mosquito-borne disease.

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments ...

Higher temperatures helped a new strain of West Nile virus invade and spread across North America, according to a study published in the June 27 issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens. “The study shows ...

Global warming will expand the areas where animal viruses are detected, increasing risks in regions outside the tropics.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The scoping review, led by the University of Adelaide, and published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, ...