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Environment

Goat plague wipes out 10 per cent of endangered antelopes

The Mongolian saiga antelope population has been decimated by a disease that usually affects livestock – the first instance in wild antelopes

Man having a check up

Health

Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women

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Environment

Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

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Health

HIV jumped to the US in 1970 – 10 years before it was spotted

Black widow spider

Health

Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack

A man sleeps in an artificially lit factory

Health

Herpes infections are worse if contracted at the end of the day

Bumblebee landing on a tomato plant

Environment

Aphrodisiac virus makes plants super-attractive to bumblebees

Peter Piot

Health

I was there at Ebola’s bloody beginning

Turtle with many growths characteristic of fibropapillomatosis

Life

Turtle herpes outbreak hints at Great Barrier Reef contamination

Epstein-Barr virus in lurid false colour

Health

Gene editing could destroy herpes viruses living inside you

The CRISPR technique is a new weapon against dormant herpes viruses in the body, which cause cold sores and can be implicated in blindness and cancer

Health

Zika vaccine protects mice, but may increase risk of dengue

Health

Orlando massacre prompts call to ease gay blood donor rules

Health

Failing livers transformed into healthy organs by virus therapy

Environment

Australia to destroy alien carp by releasing herpes into rivers