15 February 2023
The deadly Marburg virus has been detected in Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring Cameroon, and the World Health Organization is deploying teams to trace the spread of the disease
10 February 2023
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its recommendations for routine immunisations in children and adults to include covid-19 vaccines
24 January 2023
Although usually mild, the respiratory syncytial virus can be fatal among babies and older people. Promising results from trials during pregnancy and in those aged 60 or over suggest that a vaccine may soon be approved
2 August 2022
An experimental vaccine warded off the respiratory syncytial virus, the most common cause of the chest infection bronchiolitis, in newborn mice
20 July 2022
How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build tiny tubes from nose cells to brain cells that it can shuttle through
23 June 2022
Poliovirus has been detected in London sewage samples, but no human cases have been reported so far
9 June 2022
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
6 June 2022
This is an archive of the New Scientist daily covid-19 news update: May 2022. Updates from: April 2022, March 2022, February 2022, January 2022, November/December 2021, September/ October 2021, July to September 2021, June/ July 2021, May 2021, March...
19 May 2022
Dozens of confirmed and suspected cases have been reported worldwide to date, some with no obvious origin, which means the virus could be spreading undetected
16 May 2022
Nearly 25,000 confirmed or suspected monkeypox cases have been identified worldwide
