A research team has unveiled new insights into how weather influences the spread of dengue fever. The study identifies temperature and rainfall as critical factors driving the global surge in dengue ...

The dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in most tropical regions of Central and South America. It is known that when the number of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for this disease ...

Ebola virus and Marburg virus are single-stranded, enveloped and negative sense-RNA viruses belonging to the Filoviridae family, and they both cause deadly hemorrhagic fevers in humans and mammals.

The Director of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Specialist Dr. S.D.U.M. Ranga, has revealed that approximately 74 members of the hospital staff have contracted dengue fever over the past month. Dr.

The negative consequences relevant to public health include: While our attention is currently focused on the avian influenza virus and its pandemic potential ... Importantly, we can still prevent ...

"The virus lineage circulating in Chinese poultry exhibits evidence of more nonsynonymous and adaptive molecular evolution in the HA gene after the date of introduction of mass poultry vaccination.

Evolution = optimization Evolution is the driving force for every organism. Given its environment, an organism adapts, survives, and withstands selective pressure. "Adaptation can be seen as an ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Scientists have already identified that the virus mutated inside the Louisiana patient who died, raising concerns that bird flu may mutate, evolve and change in future. Currently, the symptoms of ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

While the virus isn’t yet spreading between humans, experts warn of its potential to evolve and stress the need for antiviral preparedness and improved animal control measures. Researchers at Texas ...