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Of the many things brought by Covid-19, there is one that has left researchers baffled: the disappearance of the classic flu, or almost. This “oddity” is highlighted in an interesting [...]

It is called Chapare, and until some time ago it was an unknown virus, but now it is a cause for concern. In particular, experts are trying to figure out where it has come from and what its [...]

On the surface of our oceans a phage (i.e. a virus that infects bacteria) risks modifying the fine balance that regulates oxygen and carbon dioxide production. Researchers are focusing their [...]

Why is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 illness, so efficient and, therefore, so infectious? Since the explosion of the pandemic, scientists all over the world have been [...]

A study conducted by Michigan University (USA) is shedding new light on giant viruses - enigmatic viruses that are huge compared to their well-known “relatives”

The researchers published the results of their work in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The expansion of human activity – they write – has pushed many wild animal [...]

In recent weeks we have heard a lot of talk about a category of drugs that continue to fall short of our needs: antiviral drugs.

For the first time the HIV virus, responsible for AIDS, has been completely eliminated from animals that had contracted this disease.

A sixth strain Ebola, the dangerous virus that cyclically appears in several areas of Africa, was isolated in the saliva and feces of bats.

Ninety-nine percent of airborne viruses can be eliminated if they are exposed to a bombardment of ions and highly-reactive molecule fragments.