Study: Climate change helps diversify, increase transmissibility of West Nile virus
Warming trends across North America have helped establish West Nile virus (WNV) as an endemic disease in New York state, ...
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Simpler virus testing approach could reduce unnecessary PCR tests in high-risk settings
The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening ...
West Nile virus detected in Massachusetts ‘earlier’ than normal
Credit: Jimmy Chan from Pexels West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year in ...
CDC respiratory virus official resigns as former ACIP members warn of immunization progress rollback
A Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who leads the team that tracks respiratory virus hospitalizations abruptly resigned ...
Researchers report mpox DNA, live virus on surfaces and in air from patients’ rooms
A study conducted in UK hospitals found mpox virus (MPXV) clade 1b DNA in 73% of surface samples and 7% of air ...
A Virus of Our Own Hatching
The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a ...
Scientists reveal how Epstein-Barr virus reactivation triggers MIS-C in children
Why are some children devastated by mysterious post-COVID inflammation? Scientists uncover how a ‘silent’ virus awakens – and a promising ...
Test identifies prior infection by Zika virus and all four dengue virus serotypes
Credit: Researchers’ archive Brazilian researchers have developed a simple test that almost instantly tells whether a person has been exposed ...
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn’t afford to fight the virus | Books
Sarah P Jones is a writer for New York magazine and now the author of Disposable, a study of “America’s ...
CDC Warns Travelers Of Deadly Virus That Has No Approved Vaccines Or Treatment
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory warning travelers about an Ebola outbreak ...
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