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Boy get cold and blow her nose at home. (Vera Livchak / Getty Images)

Navigating the worst flu season in years

Nicole Karlis
Virus (Getty Images / Yuichiro Chino)

Viruses are in us. And are us. It's ok.

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Doctor with Oropouche virus positive blood sample. (Fania Witardiana / Getty Images)

Doctors raise alarm about “sloth fever"

Troy Farah
The Aedes mosquito is a known vector for several viruses, including West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Zika makes human skin "mosquito magnet"

Nicole Karlis
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Flying foxes flying in the sky at 17 island marine park in Riung, Flores, Indonesia. (Getty Images/Bruno Guerreiro)

Why bats don't get sick from viruses

Matthew Rozsa
DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How mirror life poses existential risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A vet takes a sample from the mouth of a swan during an animal disease exercise. (Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bird flu could mutate to become worse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A duckling is vaccinated with Volvac vaccine against Influenza in a breeding in Renung, southwestern France, on July 1, 2024. (GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe to tighten bird flu surveillance

Nicole Karlis
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Bacteriophage, illustration (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Curious history of life-saving viruses

Amber Dance - Undark
Angolan health workers treat, 05 April 2005, a 22-year-old woman, a new suspected case of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever in a clinic in Cacuaco township, outside Luanda, where the Ebola-like virus s killed at least 155 people. (FLORENCE PANOUSSIAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Marburg virus outbreak spreads in Rwanda

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Cows queuing for their midway milking at United Dreams Dairy, in North Freedom, Wisconsin on May 8, 2024. (Matthew Ludak for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bird flu mutations spark concern

Nicole Karlis
Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest mysteries about bird flu

Troy Farah, Nicole Karlis
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DNA molecule and virus particles (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Viruses are doing mysterious things

Libusha Kelly - The Conversation
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 26: Cows graze in a field at a dairy farm on April 26, 2024 in Petaluma, California. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ordering dairy producers to test cows that produce milk for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) before the animals are transported to a different state following the discovery of the virus in samples of pasteurized milk taken by the Food and Drug Administration. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Bird flu is not yet the "cow flu"

Nicole Karlis
A passenger wears a mask while riding a train passing through the Metro Center station on Thursday January 04, 2024 in Washington, DC. There is currently an increase of Covid-19 cases in the United States. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC's new COVID policy is risky: experts

Nicole Karlis
Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

"Zombie" virus fragments linger in COVID

Nicole Karlis
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CHONGQING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23, 2023 - Parents with children suffering from respiratory diseases line up at a children's hospital in Chongqing, China, November 23, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Spike in illnesses isn’t a new pathogen

Troy Farah
Bacteriophage infecting bacterium (Getty Images/Design Cells)

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) (Getty Images/Martin Moxter)

The raccoon dog–COVID connection

Troy Farah
Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

A technicality could withhold RSV shots

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
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Why chickenpox can increase stroke risk

Andrew Bubak - The Conversation
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

Troy Farah
Futuristic glowing low-polygonal bacilli bacteria and flu virus cells (Getty Images/inkoly)

Are viruses alive?

Matthew Rozsa
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Biologists probe the human "virome"

Matthew Rozsa
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