Fiji declares national HIV crisis
Fiji has declared a national HIV crisis as sexual transmission and illicit drug use help spread the virus, now infecting an estimated one in 60 adults in the Pacific nation.
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Viruses: News and Research on Viruses
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Study supports effectiveness of RSV preventive antibodies for infants, offers new way to monitor viral resistance
An analysis of more than 60,000 respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sequences from around the world found that viral variants associated with resistance to current RSV prevention tools remain rare, according to a study published ...
Sep 16, 2026
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Epstein-Barr virus activity may foreshadow multiple sclerosis attacks
A new study illuminates the connection between the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis (MS), pointing to a causal role for reactivation of the virus in triggering MS attacks in people with certain genetic risk ...
Sep 16, 2026
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Fifty years after IL-2 discovery, researchers reflect on how it has transformed medicine
A discovery made 50 years ago helped establish the field of human retrovirology, advance understanding of the human immune system and contribute to a revolution in cancer treatment. A new perspective in Science examines that ...
Sep 14, 2026
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Scientists target gum disease with bacteriophage virus
Scientists have shown that a naturally occurring virus can dismantle complex bacterial communities responsible for severe gum disease, offering a potential alternative to traditional antibiotics. In the first study to demonstrate ...
Sep 14, 2026
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Blocking gene boosts T-cell attacks on chronic hepatitis B virus and tumors
A research team led by Professor Zhou Xuyu from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from Beijing Ditan Hospital and Capital Medical University, has identified ...
Sep 14, 2026
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Promising broad-spectrum antiviral candidate against enteroviruses identified
Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have identified a promising antiviral compound that can inhibit a range of enteroviruses, including Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), ...
Sep 11, 2026
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Antiviral defense gained at the cost of autoimmunity risk, study shows
Why do genetic variants that increase the risk of autoimmune disease remain so common in the population?
Sep 11, 2026
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AAP issues recommendations for pediatric RSV vaccination in 2026-2027 season
New guidelines expand the categories of high-risk children eligible for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination and address COVID-19 vaccines for children in two policy statements and accompanying technical reports ...
Sep 10, 2026
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Ancient viral remnants in our genome may help predict response to chemotherapy
In a new study, researchers from King's College London trained AI models on multiple types of clinical and biological data to determine whether they could predict which patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) would respond ...
Sep 10, 2026
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