Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Increasing numbers of Powassan virus cases have led to a greater need to monitor and track the disease. However, testing has been ...

The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that ...

Researchers have found a way to detect persistent Epstein-Barr virus directly from routine blood-based genome sequencing, bypassing the antibody tests that have defined EBV diagnostics for decades.

Researchers at UMass Amherst have developed a new, more accurate test method for detecting a life-threatening tick-borne virus that is increasing in prevalence in Massachusetts, according to the ...

Researchers have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive disease, including encephalitis and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening to prevent the spread of infections in high-risk settings.