Pathogenicity is the potential capacity of certain species of microbes to cause an infectious process. It is characterised by a complex of pathogenic properties in the microbe formed in the process of the historical development of the struggle for existence and adaptation to parasitic life in plant, animal and human organisms. Pathogenicity is a specific characteristic of pathogenic microbes.
Congo has launched the second phase of vaccination against mpox.
A team of researchers has identified signs tied to more severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children.
Scientists have identified a new mechanism used by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox and shingles, to evade the immune system and potentially affect distant tissues.
Nearly 15,000 people have been infected with hepatitis B and C viruses in Afghanistan in the past year, the country's Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday.
Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection and Ministry of Health revealed on Wednesday that it has detected, during a monitoring operation, mosquitoes that were later found to be infected with the West Nile virus.
EcoHealth has been linked with controversial experiments in Wuhan which some fear started the pandemic.
Japan’s politics is riddled with scandals, mostly related to funding or favours to a particular individual or group, and some former Prime Ministers have lost office either because they were directly involved in or were complicit in the scandals.
Coming as a relief, 24 more samples tested negative for Nipah in Kerala Kozhikode which reported two deaths from the…
Researchers have found that people with longer-term Covid-19 symptoms including brain fog showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental processes up to two years after infection with the virus.
