Neuroscience
Researchers identify key role of immune cells in brain infection
A new study has detailed the damaging role played by the immune system in a severe brain condition most commonly caused by the cold sore virus.
Sep 15, 2020
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Encephalitis
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Parents twice as likely to be concerned about ticks than of mosquitoes
Not all bloodsuckers are created equal in parents' eyes.
Jun 15, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Tough year' for measles and other infectious diseases in US
This year, the germs roared back.
Dec 27, 2019
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Medical research
Eastern equine encephalitis virus poses emergent threat, say NIH officials
Although eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a mosquito-borne illness, has existed for centuries, 2019 has been a particularly deadly year for the disease in the United States. As of November 12, 36 confirmed cases of EEE ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Critical protein that could unlock West Nile/Zika virus treatments identified
A protein that is critical in controlling replication of West Nile and Zika viruses—and could be important for developing therapies to prevent and treat those viruses—has been identified by a Georgia State University ...
Nov 6, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
Low-income urban neighborhoods not only have more mosquitoes, but they are larger-bodied, indicating that they could be more efficient at transmitting diseases. So reports a Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies-led study, ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Michigan will spray in fight against deadly mosquito virus
Michigan will conduct aerial spraying for the first time since 1980 to combat a rare mosquito-borne virus that has killed three people and been recorded across the southern half of the state.
Sep 27, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Connecticut sees first death this year from mosquito-borne EEE
A Connecticut resident has died from eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), the first such death in the state since 2013, health officials report. In addition, another person in the state has contracted the infection, as an outbreak ...
Sep 24, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Massachusetts communities at 'critical risk' for mosquito-borne virus
There is a "critical risk" for a dangerous mosquito-transmitted virus in 28 Massachusetts communities, the state health department warns.
Sep 2, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Man in Rhode Island tests positive for rare equine virus
Public health officials say a Rhode Island man has tested positive for the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus eastern equine encephalitis.
Aug 30, 2019
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