In this story we'll look at overall trends in the history of PC viruses; also see the timeline below and to the left for more information about specific virus events. uses external resources ...

Flu, polio, AIDS. We all know that viruses have caused immeasurable suffering throughout human history. And when asked to describe a virus, most people probably would say, "small." Indeed ...

It was the first measles death in the United States since 2015, according to the CDC. The virus was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000. A measles outbreak infecting patients in ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

Previous exposures to older flu strains prime the immune system to produce antibodies against bird flu (H5N1).