Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

The deadly Marburg virus was discovered on Sunday in Guinea, West Africa, after a man died of the disease. The virus had not been seen since 2008, and the last major outbreak of Marburg was in Angola ...

The Buffalo News reporter Tim O’Shei raised the question: “What happens after Omicron?” (Jan. 9). To answer this question, he interviewed scholars in Western New York having expertise in epidemiology, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu* killed more than 50 ...

Herpes B virus (Cercopithecine Herpesvirus 1) is a zoonotic pathogen that can cause fatal encephalomyelitis in humans. The virus naturally infects rhesus monkeys, causing diseases like human herpes ...

First identified in 1897, foot-and-mouth disease has been largely eliminated from North and Central America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The virus was last reported in 1929 in the U.S., 1952 in ...

Polio, short for Poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease that can infect a person’s spinal cord, causing paralysis. Artifacts suggest the disease has existed since ancient times. An ...

NEW YORK – On a muggy Wednesday night, the South Brooklyn intersection was still except for distant flashing lights. A faint buzzing grew louder as a convoy of vehicles inched past two-story homes.