Virus

A close up of a golden lion tamarin (Credit: Luiz Thiago de Jesus)
Stopping the Next One
Why the risk of yellow fever is rising
By Jacob Kushner
A worker checks on pigs at a farm in China's Sichuan province (Credit: Getty Images)
Stopping the Next One
Why a 2009 pandemic could return
By Harriet Constable
The virus that causes Covid-19 is picking up mutations as it spreads perhaps as it tries to escape people's immune systems (Credit: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
Covid-19
What we know about Covid-19 variants
By Richard Gray
Close contact between camels and humans risks spreading Mers – a more deadly coronavirus relative of Covd-19 (Credit: Jacob Kushner)
Stopping the Next One
The virus hunters warily eyeing camels
By Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya
Scentists are starting to notice patterns in the mutations that are emerging in Covid-19 all over the world (Credit: Oscar Del Pozo/Getty Images)
Covid-19
How Covid-19 will evolve in the future
By Richard Gray
Though it has fallen out of favour in the West, phages have been in use for more than a century (Credit: Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)
Virus
The viruses that fight human diseases
By Pearly Jacob
Smallpox has plagued humans for thousands of years but was eradicated after a sustained vaccination campaign (Credit: Science Photo Library)
Virus
The deadly viruses that vanished
By Zaria Gorvett
Up to five million people catch flu each season (Credit: SPL)
Health
The real reason you get winter flu
By David Robson
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In Depth
Dos and don’ts for common colds
By David Robson
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In Depth
Generation HIV
By Madhumita Venkataramanan
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Medical Myths
Does echinacea prevent colds?
By Claudia Hammond
(Science Photo Library)
In Depth
Can Ebola spread on planes?
By David Robson
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Mosaic@Future
How polio eased Cold War tensions
By Penny Bailey
Where does snot come from? (Thinkstock)
BritLab
Where does snot come from?
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BritLab
Why do you get a fever?
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