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A study linking a virus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as ME, has been withdrawn by the journal which published it.

A test that looks for the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer may be the best way to screen women over age 30 for the disease, a new study shows.

Smear tests designed to cut deaths from cervical cancer could be improved by adding a further test looking for signs of a virus which causes it.

(MedPage Today) -- Despite advances in the treatment of HIV, only 28% of infected Americans have the virus under control, the CDC said.

ATLANTA (AP) -- A government panel wants young boys as well as girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine, in part to prevent them from spreading the sexually transmitted virus to girls....

(MedPage Today) -- The mouse retrovirus XMRV could not be found consistently in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), according to a multicenter study that included the first researchers to link the virus to CFS.

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) PiggyDemic, an application developed by Dr. Gal Almogy and professor Nir Ben-Tal of Tel Aviv University, allows Facebook users to "infect" their friends with a simulated virus or become infected themselves.

This will allow researchers to gather information on how a virus mutates, spreads through human interaction, and the number of people it infects.

Drugs that suppress HIV in infected people may also help to protect healthy people who take them from getting the virus through sexual contact, two new studies show.

(Cell Press) Now, a new study published by Cell Press online on June 30 in the journal Immunity identifies a key virus-sensing mechanism that is necessary for a successful immune response against infection with this particularly deadly type of virus.

New research finds that people living with HIV are less likely to pass the virus on to their partners if they begin drug treatment immediately..