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China said on Sunday that it had seen a decline in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) among people in the north and in children ...

With this model, researchers may be able to discover antibody drugs capable of targeting a wide range of infectious diseases.

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The oral herpes virus appears to be linked with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that the common infection might play a role in the disease, a new study published in the journal Cell Reports says.

The new strain of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) identified in China is a novel lineage within the A2 subtype of the virus.

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A person sick with norovirus can shed significant amounts of the virus, and it doesn’t take much to infect someone else.

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While this development has not changed the CDC’s official assessment of risk to the general public, it does indicate that the H5N1 virus is capable of adapting to human airways. If you're ...