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Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable ...
Mar 2, 2026
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West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental United States and can in rare cases lead to a much more serious disease with an approximately 10% fatality rate. West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease ...
Mar 1, 2026
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Chikungunya virus, a debilitating tropical disease caused by infected mosquito bites, poses a greater health threat in Europe than previously thought because it can be spread when air temperatures are as low as 13°C. Researchers ...
Feb 18, 2026
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Older people with a history of chronic kidney disease or conditions affecting blood flow to the brain such as stroke face about double the risk of developing neuroinvasive disease that can lead to paralysis and death following ...
Dec 10, 2025
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A world-first single-dose vaccine against the dengue virus, manufactured and approved for use in Brazil, will especially benefit populations in hard-to-reach regions of the country such as the Amazon, say disease specialists.
Dec 4, 2025
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Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors—such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks—to thrive.
Nov 13, 2025
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and have designed decoy molecules that block the infections.
Oct 30, 2025
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A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness within the United States in six years
Oct 15, 2025
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A Wayne State University study published in Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes long-term, sex-specific changes to a baby's immune system, particularly affecting the frontline immune ...
Oct 6, 2025
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It has been ten years since Brazil faced a major outbreak of the Zika virus. The alert was given in 2015, when the country's north-eastern states reported a sudden increase in the number of babies born with unusually small ...
Sep 29, 2025
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