Tag: Chikungunya

Canadian entomologists have reported the first appearance of Aedes japonicus -- an invasive, disease-carrying mosquito -- in western Canada. Members of the ...

Biopharmaceutical company Arno Therapeutics, Inc. has announced promising data demonstrating novel activity of AR-12 as a broad-spectrum, anti-microbial drug. Results ...

Chikungunya is one of the largest outbreaks of any virus in the world. And you don’t even necessarily have to ...

After first being isolated in Africa in 1952, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has been identified in Southern Europe, Southeast Asia, South ...

To accelerate the development of new infectious disease forecasting methods, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last year launched ...

A team of biologists from San Diego State University has developed a platform for identifying drugs that could prove to ...

The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has been the subject of increasing attention as it spreads throughout South America, Central America, the ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that blood tests of patients with the Chikungunya ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world's leading medical virologists working together to prevent illness and death ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has a requirement for the development of therapeutic strategies for select ...

One of the world's deadliest mosquitoes sustains its taste for human blood thanks in part to a genetic tweak that ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, are key members of a team recently ...

Experts raise specter of more-contagious Ebola virus | Mining for antibiotics, right under our noses | Enterovirus spreads among U.S. ...

Worst Ebola outbreak in history is moving into Africa’s cities | Study finds little spread of MERS-CoV in Saudi households ...

Global fear of Ebola outbreak stokes a frenzy of new R&D | Air Force Secretary doubles down on nuclear mission ...

Aedes aegypti mosquito. Image courtesy of James Gathany/CDC An experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito-borne viral illness chikungunya elicited neutralizing ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new challenge to address the rapidly emerging threat of Chikungunya ...

Why Ebola worries the Defense Department | Lagos overwhelmed, Nigeria asks for Ebola outbreak help | U.S. Energy Department to ...

The U.S. Army Public Health Command (USAPHC) is responding to the rapidly emerging threat of chikungunya viral infections in the ...

Seven months after the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya was recognized in the Western Hemisphere, the first locally acquired case of the ...