Virus

Chickenpox is a skin rash which has associated symptoms that can make your child feel quite unwell. Once the treatment for it begins, it generally alleviates the symptoms until the virus has gone. While there is a risk of serious…

Coming out as a young gay man is hard enough, but dealing with a sexual health problem at the same time can be enormously damaging for your mental wellness and emotional wellbeing. This is exactly what happened to Ben (not his real name),…

Shingles is a serious infection which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The illness causes a distinguishing rash as well as painful symptoms which develops on the band of skin which is supplied by the nerve. Symptoms tend to…

Between 40 and 90 percent of people develop flu-like symptoms within a month of the HIV virus entering the body, and this is known as acute retroviral syndrome or ARS. However, this isn't always the case, with some people not developing…

As with the regular flu, seasonal flu is caused by a virus which infects your nose, lungs, sinuses and throat. There are three forms of the flu virus, known as type A, B or C. Type A is the most common form and also the most infectious,…

It seems that waxing could soon become more than simply an aesthetic issue now, with new reports claiming that waxing could increase your risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases. Francois Desruelles, a dermatologist, has looked into…

Human papillomavirus is known to cause cervical cancer, but many people forget that it’s a sexually transmitted disease, and so can easily put your wellbeing at risk. According to a hospital release from Dr Katharine O. White, chief of…

A chemical found in bee stings could be used to stop the spread of HIV. Melittin is a potent toxin found in bee venom and shown to be able to destroy the virus by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in the US. The…

When your wellness is affected by virus-induced asthma, even an innocuous respiratory infection, like the common cold, produced by rhinovirus, can have such devastating effects on your wellbeing. Treatment for this kind of asthma is…

When it comes to health, you are likely to have never considered the effects of poliomyelitis (polio for short) as the disease has largely been eradicated in the western world. Unfortunately, the disease has proliferated in other countries,…

It is an unusual environmental event, especially in winter time, but an outbreak of the West Nile virus has wreaked havoc on the wellness and wellbeing of the bald eagle population. This deadly virus has now killed more than two dozen of…

Even though HIV diversifies widely within infected individuals over time, the virus strains that ultimately are passed on through heterosexual transmission often resemble the strain of virus that originally infects the transmitting…

Scientists have discovered a compound that greatly boosts the effect of vaccines against viruses like flu, HIV and herpes in mice. An 'adjuvant' is a substance added to a vaccine to enhance the immune response and offer better protection…

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a reactivation of the chicken pox virus resulting in a painful rash with lesions.  It does not increase the risk of cancer in the general population Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is a painful…