The five file types listed above are commonly known to contain viruses. However, just about any file type can potentially contain malicious functionality; malicious image files like JPGs ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. As early as the 1990s, researchers proposed that a very common type of herpes virus—then known as human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6)—could be somehow ...

A VIRUS that’s previously been linked to seven types of cancer could also increase the risk of heart disease, say researchers. In the UK, the virus is very common – an estimated 80 per ...

Researchers are making substantial progress in developing safe and effective vaccines against the dengue virus. Currently, a large number of dengue vaccine candidates are being tested in ...

Since the identification by Baruch Blumberg, in 1965, of the first viral agent for hepatitis – the B virus – another five types have been described: A, C, D and G (see table). However, the subtleties ...

All organisms are affected by pathogens. Even bacteria are infected by certain types of virus. Some of these infections can be transferred to organisms of a different species. Direct contact This ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...