A virus that ordinarily affects marine animals has caused glaucoma-like symptoms and even irreversible vision loss in a small but growing group of people in China. This is the first known time that a ...

Anthropic announced today that its Claude Code and Claude Cowork tools are being updated to accomplish tasks using your computer. The latest update will see these AI resources become capable of ...

You may be sick with what feels like a nasty cold or a case of the flu, but there’s another, lesser-known respiratory virus that could be to blame. Cases of human metapneumovirus, known as HMPV, are ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve new traits that meet the challenges of every environment they inhabit, from ...

The New York City Department of Health confirmed the first case of a severe strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, in New York City. Health officials said Friday that the case is ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

A respiratory virus with no specific treatment or vaccines is spreading in the Bay Area. According to the CDC, the spike of the Human Metapneumovirus, or HMPV for short, started in December. A high ...

A "new" virus in California has reached New Jersey as cases of HMPV in NJ have spiked in recent days, with the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) having no treatment and no vaccine, according to the Centers ...

A new study looks into the differences in gut bacteria between people with and without colorectal cancer. Scientists found cancer patients to have a virus-infected bacterium that healthy people ...

Novato is one of the Northern California communities that have seen high concentrations of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, detected in local wastewater. (Santiago Mejia / Associated Press) A ...

If you notice that your office is emptying out, chances are it’s because a respiratory virus that few people have actually heard of is circulating throughout Northern California. Dr. Monica Gandhi, an ...

(NEXSTAR) – It’s not just the flu spreading around the U.S. National tracking shows another respiratory virus that has no vaccine and no treatment has been on the rise. Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, ...