What to know about the chikungunya virus amid the outbreak in China - The Washington Post

The virus does not spread from one person to another, nor is it transmitted by coughing or sneezing or through touch, the agency said. Spread, however, can occur through blood transfusion, handling infected blood or drawing blood from an infected person [including by mosquito bites]. 

What are the symptoms of chikungunya?

The most prominent symptoms are fever and joint pain, usually beginning three to seven days after being infected, according to the CDC. Other possible signs include a headache, muscle pain, swollen joints or a rash. Chikungunya is commonly misdiagnosed, the WHO says, given the similarity of its symptoms to dengue and Zika…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/06/chikungunya-virus-outbreak-china-symptoms-cause/

Security Bite: Fake iPhone virus pop-ups have made it on YouTube - 9to5Mac

The ad itself isn't a pop-up but uses an image of a TCC-like prompt to trick unsuspecting YouTube viewers into downloading an app claiming to fix problems that don't exist. It states, "Your iphone is severely damaged by (247) virus! We have detected that your iPhone has been infected with viruses. If you don't take any action, it will soon corrupt your SIM card, data, photos and contacts."

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/11/fake-iphone-virus-pops-up-have-made-it-on-youtube/ 

 

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ | Global development | The Guardian

A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed 

 

Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human infection in US, CDC says

Mutations are rare but have been reported in some cases in other countries and most often in extreme infections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/26/bird-flu-virus-mutations

I helped advise the US government on the next likely pandemic. What I learned is alarming

These are the challenges facing experts as we try to plan for a future pandemic. However, progress is stalling. In the meetings I've attended, the sentiment is one of frustration as political priorities have shifted away from public health. In the US, President Joe Biden has been actively engaged in global health security, and his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, invited several experts – including myself – to brief him directly on post-Covid-19 response. However, Biden now faces re-election and a fight against Donald Trump, who did not show any interest in this issue during his presidency. Here in the UK, it feels difficult to make the case for a potential pathogen that could affect the country, when the NHS is falling apart…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/25/us-government-pandemic-virus-vaccine

Closest Known Relatives of Virus Behind COVID-19 Found in Laos - Scientific American

…"When SARS-CoV-2 was first sequenced, the receptor binding domain didn't really look like anything we'd seen before," says Edward Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney in Australia. This caused some people to speculate that the virus had been created in a laboratory. But the Laos coronaviruses confirm these parts of SARS-CoV-2 exist in nature, he says…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2

Microsoft Edge is locked with virus error message - Microsoft Community

It's a common scam. Click the X to close the window. You should then see a box at the bottom, Do not allow this site to create new messages. Check it and then close that window and finally the popup...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_other-protect_scanning-windows_10/microsoft-edge-is-locked-with-virus-error-message/959d8b68-5206-4b3f-8a86-37aa1e851421

Ebola has reemerged in Africa | TheHill

A new case of the deadly virus was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.....

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/537854-ebola-has-reemerged-in-africa

Fauci says White House told NIH to cancel funding for bat virus study - POLITICO

“Why was it canceled? It was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it," Fauci said. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/fauci-nih-white-house-bat-study-336452

The next pandemic is already coming — unless humans change how we interact with wildlife - The Washington Post

The global wildlife trade, agricultural intensification, deforestation and urbanization are bringing people closer to animals, giving their viruses more of what they need to infect us: opportunity....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/04/03/coronavirus-wildlife-environment/

Our memory comes from an ancient virus, neuroscientists say - Big Think

This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.....
https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/our-memory-comes-from-an-ancient-virus-neuroscientists-say

How to diagnose and remove any virus from your iPhone - Business Insider

It's incredibly rare for an iPhone to catch a virus, but not impossible. The risk of viruses and malware infecting your iPhone is extremely low, but if your iPhone behaves oddly, there are simple steps you can take to eliminate an existent virus. ....
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-remove-virus-from-iphone

Hospital viruses: Fake cancerous nodes in CT scans, created by malware, trick radiologists - The Washington Post

Researchers in Israel created malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in medical imaging equipment and networks...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/03/hospital-viruses-fake-cancerous-nodes-ct-scans-created-by-malware-trick-radiologists/

Doctors raise alarm about ancient disease: 'Prevalence is off the charts' - CNN

Rates of HTLV-1, an ancient virus called the cousin of HIV, are exceeding 40% among adults in remote regions of central Australia. Doctors are now raising alarm about this "neglected" infection.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/health/htlv-1-virus-australia-explainer/index.html

Giant Viruses with Huge Genomes Found in Brazil Rewrite What We Know about These Bizarre Life Forms - Newsweek

Even among the giant viruses, these are weird....
http://www.newsweek.com/giant-viruses-huge-genomes-found-brazil-rewrite-what-we-know-about-these-831441

Breakthrough in Memory Formation Research Reveals HIV-Like Protein That 'Infects' the Brain -- Newsweek

Arc is the first and so far only non-viral protein known to behave this way. ....
http://www.newsweek.com/breakthrough-memory-formation-virus-hiv-protein-infects-brain-arc-778236

Joy Reid rails against newest Trump administration move as "just insane" — and we agree -- Salon

MSNBC's Joy Reid is fed up with the Trump administration, and believes that while some of the administration's decisions are "awful," others are simply "just insane." ....
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/26/this-latest-trump-administration-move-is-being-called-just-insane/

5 Scary Diseases Climate Change May Awaken from the Melting Permafrost | Alternet

Each layer that melts exposes germs dating back thousands of years....
https://www.alternet.org/environment/5-scary-diseases-climate-change-may-awaken-melting-permafrost

Designer Viruses Stimulate the Immune System to Fight Cancer

Swiss scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the University of Basel have created artificial viruses that can be used to target cancer. These designer viruses alert the immune system and cause it to send killer cells to help fight the tumor. The results, published in the journal Nature Communications, provide a basis for innovative cancer treatments....
http://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2017/cdp260517/

Why Chinese Scientists Are More Worried Than Ever About Bird Flu

At a research lab on top of a forested hill overlooking Hong Kong, scientists are growing viruses. They first drill tiny holes into an egg before inoculating it with avian influenza to observe how the virus behaves....
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/11/523271148/why-chinese-scientists-are-more-worried-than-ever-about-bird-flu?ft=nprml&f=1001