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: Yellow Fever
CDC Updates Monkeypox Travel Alert for Nigeria
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updates an existing Level 1 Travel Alert for Monkeypox in the ...
The Soldiers Who Took on Yellow Fever
The Yellow Fever Board, led by then-Major Walter Reed and Jesse Lazear, had convened at the Army's Columbia Barracks in ...
8th FIDSSA Congress – Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa
The 8th Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa FIDSSA Congress 2019 will be held at the Indaba Hotel ...
WHO Releases 1.4M Doses of Yellow Fever Vaccine from Global Stockpile
The World Health Organization (WHO) International Coordinating Group (ICG) on vaccine provision for yellow fever has provided 1.4 million vaccine ...
Princeton Researchers Develop Yellow Fever Virus Replication Tracking Technique
Researchers from Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology have developed a new method that can precisely track the replication of ...
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 ...
Spotlight on WHO’s New Health Emergencies Programme
Worldwide, a record 130 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and disease outbreaks are a constant global threat. ...
Yellow Fever Vaccine Trial Gets Underway
Yellow fever virus is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa. It caused an estimated 84,000 ...
U.S. Military Impacted by Yellow Fever Vaccine Shortage
The U.S. Defense Health Agency’s Immunization Healthcare Branch today released an updated information paper on the yellow fever vaccine shortage ...
NIAID Funds Research on Combination Vaccine Adjuvants
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded six grants ...
Angola Challenged by Worst Yellow Fever Outbreak in Decades
Africa Yellow Fever Vaccination Zones - Map. Image: CDC More than 450 people have been infected by yellow fever, and ...
Genetic Tweak Gave Yellow Fever Mosquitoes a Nose for Humans
One of the world's deadliest mosquitoes sustains its taste for human blood thanks in part to a genetic tweak that ...
iBio Expands Collaborations in Pursuit of Yellow Fever Vaccine
iBio, Inc. this week announced changes to current collaborative licensing agreements with Brazil's Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz and the Fraunhofer USA Center for ...
Mapping Genomic Differences in Yellow Fever, Malaria Mosquitoes
Researchers from Virginia Tech have developed a chromosome map for about half of the genome of the mosquito Aedes agypti, ...
Mass Vaccination Campaigns Reduce Substantial Burden of Yellow Fever
Yellow fever, an acute vector-borne disease, is estimated to have been responsible for 78,000 deaths in Africa in 2013 according ...
Yellow Fever Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
An emergency mass vaccination campaign against yellow fever is being launched next week in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...
NAMRU-3 Deployed to Sudan: Yellow Fever Death Toll Hits 164
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced the acute viral hemorrhagic disease yellow fever has killed at least 164 people ...
