News tagged with lethal virus

Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past

In the waning months of the First World War, a lethal virus known as the Spanish flu (influenza A, subtype H1N1), swept the United States, Europe and Asia in three convulsive waves. The year was 1918. The ...

Biology /

Feb 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0

Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA — docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0