A new report about AIDS and the virus responsible for the disease provided some reason to celebrate.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

He discovered he had the virus that causes the disease AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The latest victim on Palm Island of the H1N1 virus is a pregnant woman, who lost her unborn child after contracting the disease.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

The virus can be transmitted by unsafe sex and unsterile needles, but most people who suffer from the disease become infected at birth from their mothers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The American Liver Foundation says one in 10 Asian Americans have the virus, a disease that's 100 times more likely to strike Asian Americans than other ethnic groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Angus Nicoll of the European Center for Disease Prevention says that at this point no one knows whether the virus will become more or less virulent in the months ahead.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

European skepticism about the vaccine comes as the Stockholm-based European Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of deaths in Europe due to the H1N1 virus has been doubling every two weeks since mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Other infectious disease experts,however, have insisted Australia's is over-reacting to the outbreak of the A-H1N1 virus, insisting that,so far, the disease is no worse than other strains of influenza that kill hundreds of Australians every year during the colder winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02