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Bacteriophage T4

Health By Eric Boodman

First phage therapy center in the U.S. signals growing acceptance

Rotten eggplant

Health By Eric Boodman

How genetically engineered viruses — and a rotten eggplant — prolonged a teenager’s life

In the Lab By Leah Samuel

5 important ways Henrietta Lacks changed medical science

Health By Helen Branswell

Getting a flu shot every year? More may not be better

Human B Lymphocyte

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Vaccines don’t work against some viruses. CRISPR might one day fix that

In the water:

Health By Helen Branswell

If you drink untreated water — and you shouldn’t — this is what you’re drinking

In the Lab By Eric Boodman

How the Navy brought a once-derided scientist out of retirement — and into the virus-selling business

Internalized bacteriophage

In the Lab By Eric Boodman

Viruses act as decoys, study finds, helping bacteria evade the immune system

All Coverage

Health By Associated Press

Chinese health officials can’t rule out person-to-person spread of new virus

Wuhan

Health By Helen Branswell

Experts search for answers in limited information about mystery pneumonia outbreak in China

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Mallory Smith writing

First Opinion By Diane Shader Smith

My daughter is gone but her legacy lives on through her writing and phage therapy

acute flaccid myelitis patient

Health By Helen Branswell

With a surge in cases of mysterious polio-like condition, CDC appeals to doctors to help crack case

Politics By Kate Sheridan

HIV research halted after NIH freezes acquisition of fetal tissue

Ebola

In the Lab By Helen Branswell

New Ebola species is reported for first time in a decade

Don't Miss By Rick Berke

Watch: Bill Gates the philanthropist is also Bill Gates the movie buff

CJ Peters

Heavyweights By Helen Branswell

The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

Health By Helen Branswell

This year’s awful flu season may have just hit a plateau

West Nile virus

Health By Andrew Joseph

Not just Zika: Other mosquito-borne viruses may cause birth defects, study suggests

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

U.S. lifts moratorium on funding controversial, high-risk virus research

Mallory Smith

Health By Eric Boodman

A patient’s legacy: Researchers work to make phage therapy less of a long shot

West nile chickens

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Deadly West Nile virus cases are spiking in LA. The first line of defense: chickens

Ebola virus

Health By Helen Branswell

Ebola outbreak may be smaller than feared, WHO indicates

Sierra Leone EBOLA

Health By Helen Branswell

New report charts ways to expedite critical research during epidemics

Microcephaly in Recife

Health By Helen Branswell

Why were there fewer microcephaly cases from Zika last year?

Yellow Fever Congo

Health By Helen Branswell

Researchers say yellow fever in Brazil means a chance of the disease coming to the US

CDC Quarantine

Health By Helen Branswell

50 years of keeping bugs at bay: inside the CDC’s quarantine program

Pyramids medical tourism

Business By Rebecca Robbins

For $6,000, medical tourists seek a hepatitis C cure — and see the pyramids

Rats

Health By Associated Press

A rare rat virus infects eight people in Wisconsin and Illinois

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation

Health By Helen Branswell

Remembering Ebola, coalition targets three viruses with outbreak potential

STAT Plus - Asia Intel

Pharma By EJ Lane

Asia Intel: GSK poised for swift and lucrative Chinese approval for new HIV pill

MERS

Health By Helen Branswell

Finding the world’s unknown viruses — before they find us

Zika Vaccine

Health By Helen Branswell

A Zika vaccine is being developed at warp speed, but will there be a market for it?

HIV Prevention Methods

First Opinion By Bethany Young Holt

Ending HIV requires new prevention methods for women