Sterilizing Male Mosquitoes with Gene Editing to Reduce Disease Spread
Rendering certain male mosquitoes infertile with CRISPR-Cas9 techniques could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for ...
Tag: Dengue
Breakthrough Results for Dengue Antiviral: Janssen Compound Shows Promise Against All Serotypes
Named one of the top ten threats in 2019 by the World Health Organization, dengue is critically important to global health ...
Biomarkers Identified to Predict Severe Dengue
Researchers have identified a combination of biological markers in patients with dengue that could help clinicians triage and predict whether ...
People with Zika Antibodies More Vulnerable to Severe Dengue Disease
Getting sick with the mosquito-borne Zika virus makes people more vulnerable to developing dengue disease later on, and to suffering ...
Predicting Dengue Outbreaks with 4-Week Mosquito Forecasts
A new study demonstrates for the first time that subseasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict outbreaks ...
It’s An Exciting Time to Be a Microbiologist
The team at Nature Microbiology takes stock of the past year, highlighting coverage of vector biology research such as the global distribution ...
Sexual Transmission of Dengue Reported in Spain
Spanish authorities have reported the likely sexual transmission of dengue between two men. This is the first case of dengue ...
Pakistan: Countrywide Dengue Cases Nearing 50,000
Pakistan's dengue outbreak has set a new record with the number of reported cases surging to 49,587 this year, jumping ...
DCN Diagnostics and E25Bio Partner on Point-of-Care Diagnostics
DCN Dx, a developer and manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, and E25Bio, an MIT-spinoff diagnostics company from the Gehrke ...
Naval Research Laboratory Seeks to Advance Field Diagnostics of Infectious Agents
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking partners to advance technology developed for in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable ...
The Emergence of Usutu Virus in Europe
Researchers are taking stock of the emergence of Usutu virus in Europe, a mosquito-borne virus that circulates between birds. It ...
What Does Warming Planet Mean for Mosquito-Bourne Diseases?
Workers in Ecuador spray insecticide to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue, chikungunya and Zika diseases. Credit: Dany Krom ...
U.S. Navy to Sponsor Study on Acute Febrile Illness in Latin America
The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) is looking for a public academic institution for a collaborative acute ...
US Army Seeks Dengue Human Infection Model Prototype Development
The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) has issued a solicitation focused on accelerating development of a dengue human ...
NIAID-Backed Phase 1b Study to Evaluate Broad-Spectrum Antiviral for Dengue
A Phase 1b multiple ascending dose study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of UV-4B has been initiated by Emergency ...
University of Miami, Heat Biologics Partner on Zika Vaccine
The University of Miami has entered into an agreement with Heat Biologics, Inc. to license and develop a portfolio of ...
The Impact of Vector-Borne Diseases on Global Health
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Microbial Threats has released a new summary of its ...
Fever and Human Mobility in an Epidemic
Dengue fever is common in Iquitos, Peru, a densely packed city surrounded by the Amazon. With the imminent arrival of ...
CDC Establishing a Vector Control Unit in Puerto Rico
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced new funding efforts to strengthen the capacity to perform long-term vector control ...
Malaria Box, Pathogen Box Revolutionize Open Source Drug Development
In what is being called the first-ever test of open-source drug-discovery, researchers from around the world have successfully identified compounds ...
