Dengue Virus News Gathered from News-Medical.Net
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Sub-seasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict dengue outbreaks
Aug 26, 2020 | 02:59 amA new study demonstrates for the first time that subseasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict outbreaks of dengue fever by estimating mosquito abundance.
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes to be released in Florida Keys
Aug 21, 2020 | 03:49 amMosquitoes are known to be vectors or bearers of several viral and protozoal infections such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, Chikungunya, and malaria. These infections are known to infect and even kill millions around the world each year. In order to tackle this vector-borne menace, researchers have genetically engineered mosquitoes that could replace the infection carrying species of the mosquitoes.
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Startling report suggests COVID-19 may have first appeared in 2012
Aug 17, 2020 | 11:02 amNow, a report on the website Independent Science News by researchers Jonathan Latham, and Allison Wilson suggests that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market in 2019, but 1,000 miles away in 2012, in a Chinese mineshaft where workers fell ill with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats.
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U.S. scientists to create coronavirus strain for human challenge trials
Aug 17, 2020 | 00:24 amNow, a team of scientists in the United States plans to create a coronavirus strain that can be used for human challenge trials, a controversial type of study wherein health volunteers would be vaccinated and intentionally infected with the virus.
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New system monitors, forecasts outbreak risk of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-borne diseases
Aug 5, 2020 | 04:48 amResearchers led by Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society and the Pan-American Health Organization have developed a system to monitor and forecast the environmental suitability of transmission of Zika, dengue fever, chikungunya and other diseases carried by species of Aedes mosquitos in the U.S. and neighboring regions.
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Study explores if prior exposure to common cold viruses may affect SARS-CoV-2 severity
Jul 30, 2020 | 01:32 amA study led by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG) shows that some healthy individuals possess immune cells capable of recognizing the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
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Nix gene can help develop future mosquito control techniques
Jul 15, 2020 | 07:28 amVirginia Tech researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed for male mosquito flight.
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China reports Dengue fever after bubonic plague threat
Jul 8, 2020 | 08:26 amThe actively spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19) first emerged in China in December 2019. More than six months after, the world grapples with nearly 11.8 confirmed cases of the viral infection. Now, as China slowly starts to reboot its economy and ease lockdown restrictions, two new health issues are emerging.
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Sanford Burnham Prebys announces research agreement with Lilly to identify COVID-19 antibodies
Jun 29, 2020 | 14:56 pmSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute today announced a research agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to characterize Lilly's next-generation anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.
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UConn researchers tackle a vexing problem in the development of vaccines
Jun 18, 2020 | 02:31 amResearchers at UConn's Center of Excellence in Vaccine Research have made a breakthrough in vaccine development for a common and difficult to treat pneumonia-causing pathogen. Their research was recently published in the Nature Partner Journal - Vaccines.
