Yet, while some illnesses like measles or mumps often grant lifelong immunity ... Pathogen Stability: Some viruses, such as the polio virus, are genetically stable and do not mutate easily.

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

While the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is perhaps the best ... That process primed the immune system to fight off the virus that causes COVID-19. Despite widespread claims, health authorities ...

but linked to research into how the virus disproportionately affects certain races due to genetic structure. “In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted ...

Discover how scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time using mRNA technology, leading to improved public health ...

Joint statement from Albemarle Regional Health Services and Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Due to the access to the MMR vaccine ...

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus that primarily affects children but could also infect adolescents and adults. It mostly causes the parotid salivary glands on one or both sides of ...

Before the introduction of the mumps vaccine in 1967 in the U.S., more than 90 percent of children and adolescents came down with the infection. Although that percentage plummeted in the 1970s, the ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the ...

A student at River Road Middle School (6th - 8th grade) in Elizabeth City has been diagnosed with mumps, according to Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. The school district shared a letter ...

Anti-vaccine campaigns have often targeted the M.M.R. vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Experts tend to worry most about a resurgence of measles. The virus is ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...