Study reveals many in southern Norway underestimate dangers posed by ticks
Ticks are found all over the world. There are more than 900 species, and many of them pass on dangerous diseases to both humans and animals.
Oct 9, 2025
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Viruses: News and Research on Bunyaviridae
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Mini-organ models reveal hantavirus secrets, point to treatments
UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses—rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents—infect the body. Hantaviruses were thrust ...
Aug 26, 2025
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Biologists are tracking Jamestown Canyon virus, detected in Pennsylvania mosquitoes
While West Nile remains the greatest mosquito-borne threat in Pennsylvania, state officials are monitoring another virus that has begun popping up in mosquito populations.
Jul 28, 2025
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How glycoprotein GP38 from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus could advance monoclonal antibody therapies
A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine involving scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Live hantavirus is carried by more than 30 New Mexico small mammal species
Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of hantavirus in North America, New Mexicans have been warned to be on the lookout for deer mice, which harbor the microbe and ...
Mar 25, 2025
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How Indigenous knowledge helped solve a mysterious outbreak
When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern U.S. in 1993, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators were stumped.
Nov 1, 2024
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New virus uncovered in China—is this a sign tick-borne diseases are on the rise?
Ticks are responsible for spreading over 25 human and animal diseases. While you may be familiar with some of these—such as Lyme disease—there are many others you've probably never heard of, including some that have been ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Expert discusses mosquito-borne diseases and prevention measures
Rhode Island's least favorite summer guests have arrived: mosquitos, especially those carrying eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile Virus.
Sep 23, 2024
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Scientists discover novel orthonairovirus in man bitten by tick in China
A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine describes a previously unidentified orthonairovirus, dubbed Wetland virus (WELV), in a man bitten by a tick at a wetland park in Inner Mongolia, China, in 2019.
Sep 10, 2024
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New study shows how the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with JLP Health and others, have identified how the tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells. The results are published in Nature Microbiology ...
Mar 28, 2024
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