Poliovirus was detected in wastewater systems in 2024 in five European countries, potentially putting vulnerable populations ...

Viruses, then, may have existed before bacteria, archaea, or eukaryotes (Figure 4; Prangishvili et al. 2006). Most biologists now agree that the very first replicating molecules consisted of RNA ...

But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a year, killing many of them. Vaccines turned the tide against the virus. Over the past decade, there has been only one ...

A virus is, arguably, the smallest possible living thing. It is a bundle of DNA or RNA bound up in a minuscule core, sometimes surrounded by a sturdy envelope and sometimes not. It can reproduce, but ...

Influenza is an RNA virus in the Orthomyxoviridae family and ... Of the more than 100 non-polio enteroviruses, the most common ones are EV-D68, EV-A71, and coxsackie virus A6 (CV-A6), according ...

One aspect that signals pandemic potential in a virus is having an RNA, rather than DNA, genome. That’s because the process of copying RNA typically doesn’t include a proofreader like DNA replication ...

As well as helping eliminate polio, the scientists believe their approach could help the world react to unexpected threats such as Zika virus or Ebola. Experts said the achievement was both ...

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom ...

the vaccine can contain just a piece of the protein coat that surrounds the virus's DNA (or RNA). Even small portion of a virus is sometimes enough to stimulate an immune response in the body.

Microbial and disease trend analysis in wastewater has a long history including surveillance of poliovirus, hepatitis A virus, cholera ... Over time, disease cases and detected viral RNA amounts can ...

and Naushahro Feroze districts in Sindh have tested positive for Wild Polio virus Type 1, ARY News reported. The samples, collected on December 23 and 24, confirm the presence of the virus in ...