West Nile Virus (WNV)

  • West Nile Virus Transmission Linked with Land-Use Patterns and 'Super Spreaders'
    After its initial appearance in New York in 1999, West Nile virus spread across the United States in just a few years and is now well established throughout North and South America. Both the mosquitoes that transmit it and the birds that are important hosts for the virus ...More
    October 20, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Software Predicted Virus Risk in California WNV Epidemic
    A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6 percent of human cases of the disease would arise and defined high-risk areas where the risk of infection turned ...More
    August 11, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Catching the West Nile Virus in Action
    Since 1999, several outbreaks of West Nile virus, which causes fever or severe neurological symptoms and is transmitted from birds to humans by blood-sucking mosquitoes, have been seen in the U.S., usually during the summer months. But researchers aren't certain how the ...More
    July 25, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Antibody Locks Up West Nile's Infection Mechanism
    Researchers have learned the structure that results when an antibody binds to the West Nile virus, neutralizing the virus by locking up its infection mechanism. The information could help scientists develop a vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease. The findings show ...More
    November 2, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Mosquito Monitoring Saves Lives and Money, Analysis Finds
    Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis by Emory University. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) ...More
    October 27, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Sequence Genome of Mosquito That Spreads West Nile Virus
    Last year, 720 people in the United States became infected with West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that is spread through the bite of a mosquito – the Culex mosquito – that has first fed on infected birds. Such mosquitoes have the virus eventually located in ...More
    October 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Study to Examine New Treatment for West Nile Virus
    Neurological and infectious disease experts at Rush University Medical Center are testing a new drug therapy for the treatment of individuals with West Nile fever or suspected central nervous system infection due to the West Nile virus. Rush is the only site in the Midwest ...More
    August 18, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Mosquitoes, Not Birds, May Have Carried West Nile Virus Across U.S.
    Mosquitoes, not birds as suspected, may have a played a primary role in spreading West Nile virus westward across the United States, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is among the first to examine the role ...More
    March 2, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Antibodies from Plants May Help Fight Disease
    The first head-to-head comparison of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies produced from plants versus the same antibodies produced from mammalian cells has shown that plant-produced antibodies can fight infection equally well.Scientists from Washington University School of ...More
    February 9, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Complete In-Depth Study of the Malaria Parasite Genome
    Groundbreaking research done at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) could lead to the development of more potent drugs or a vaccine for malaria, which is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes and kills up to three ...More
    February 5, 2010
    Posted in News
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