By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Country statistics The Russia Ministry of Health reported an additional 6,411 coronavirus disease, or COVID-19 cases today, bringing the country total to 93,558 recorded in...

By Mariia Ovodiuk A novel study by Chinese investigators suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may have the ability to dissociate iron from the porphyrin and bond with porphyrin itself. The alterations in the hemoglobin...

Only a few cases of the newly discovered Bourbon virus have been reported, and two of them ended in death, partly because no specific treatments are available for the tick-borne illness. Now, researchers...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has approved the use of four experimental Ebola treatments to manage the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. At least 59 people have died, with 102 cases diagnosed...

High doses of favipiravir extended survival in non-human primates infected with Ebola virus, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Jeremie Guedj of INSERM, France, and colleagues. Despite...

An experimental drug currently being trialed for influenza and Ebola viruses could have a new target: norovirus, often known as the winter vomiting virus. A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge...