Everything hurt. For the first time in my life, I could feel the tiny muscles behind my eyeballs. And they ached. It all ached. I
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Zika virus (ZIKV), a rare but benign mosquito borne illness, is spreading across the islands of the south pacific. The Disease Daily recently published a
Throughout the month of December scientists have been working to determine the cause of twenty-nine bald eagle deaths in the state of Utah. Many of
According to a new study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers have discovered a new flu virus in fruit bats from Peru. The new
A new virus has been associated with respiratory illness and resulting death in a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), according to researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman
Simply uttering the word Ebola is enough to cause a person to cringe, shudder, twitch, or perhaps even recoil in horror. Rightly so. Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF),
For many Americans, especially young adults, poliovirus not only has no relevance to their lives, they may not even be sure what it is or
Last Friday, March 15, the CDC confirmed that a rabies death in Maryland was caused by an organ transplant from an infected donor. Three other
If there’s one virus outside of the common cold that most of us have had firsthand experience with, it’s clearly influenza. That alone makes it one virus everyone
In 2001, the city of Vienna, Austria noticed a strange and sudden disappearance of its Eurasion Blackbird population. Researchers and scientists were equally puzzled by