In the weeks following a bout of influenza or COVID, the risk of heart attack or stroke may rise dramatically, and chronic infections such as HIV may increase the long-term risk of serious ...

Every year on 28 July, countries around the world observe World Hepatitis Day, a global campaign dedicated to raising ...

Cardiac emergencies are more likely in the weeks after a bout of COVID or flu, while long-lasting viral illnesses like shingles threaten heart health for years. New research concluded that COVID and ...

How Are These Viral Infections Different? Read on to know how different these two viral infections are and what symptoms the ...

Chikungunya virus, which is transmitted to people by infected Aedes mosquitoes and characterized by high fever and intense joint swelling and pain, has made a resurgence in many countries around the ...

Viral hepatitis has five types of strains that have different symptoms and different modes of transmission. Dr Vineet Kumar ...

In 2016, all WHO Member States committed to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.1 The principal ...

In chronic viral infection, T cells become functionally "exhausted," burning out over time and allowing the virus to persist. And yet, when the researchers mapped the molecular profiles of both cell ...

Chronic viral infections impose relentless antigenic stimulation on CD8+ T lymphocytes, driving a progressive state of dysfunction known as T cell exhaustion. Exhausted T cells are characterised by ...

A review of 155 scientific studies found influenza and COVID infections raised the risk of heart attack or stroke as much as three-to five-fold in the weeks following the initial infection. Viruses ...

In the weeks following a bout of influenza or COVID, the risk of heart attack or stroke may rise dramatically, and chronic infections such as HIV may increase the long-term risk of serious ...