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In the United States, children are routinely vaccinated against varicella-z...

Chickenpox (varicella) is a highly contagious infection with the varicella-...

Rubella (also known as epidemic roseola, German measles, liberty measles or...

Reports of measles go back to at least 600 BCE, however, the first scientif...

CMV especially attacks salivary glands. CMV infection can also be life thre...

Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), also known as hum...

Neonatal hepatitis is inflammation of the liver that occurs only in early i...

1) What is Hepatitis C? Five different viruses (termed A,B,C,D, and E) caus...

Hepatitis B is a virus that causes the liver to become inflamed. Most peop...

1. What Is Hepatitis A? Hepatitis A is one of five known viruses that cause...

Ross River virus (RRV) infection, or epidemic polyarthritis, is a viral inf...

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It represents the la...

Named after Coxsackie, New York, where they were discovered, the coxsackie ...

First isolated from chickens in 1937. After the discovery of Rhinoviruses i...

Clinical features: Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are second to respir...

Hendra virus (formerly called equine morbillivirus) is a member of the fami...

Borna disease virus, a newly classified nonsegmented negative-strand RNA vi...

Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever was first recognised in 1976, when large ou...

Lassa fever is a notifiable (or reportable) disease in most countries and i...

Since the discovery of Norwalk Virus in 1972, there has been much confusion...

Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. I...

An extremely virulent, often fatal, Old-World, viral hemorrhagic illness....

Retroviruses infect a wide range of animal species and cause a variety of ...

Shingles (herpes zoster) are an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin th...