Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

“If we get a tourist come in with dengue virus in their blood, it could infect one of those mosquitoes, and through just bad luck it looks like it has infected one or possibly a couple of people ...

Townsville Public Health Unit said on Friday that one person had tested positive for the rare Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and another for dengue virus. The individual with JEV is receiving ...

Dengue virus infects up to 400 million people worldwide each year according to World Health Organization estimates, and no available treatments exist for this disease. ... Dengue Fever Infections ...

“This ongoing evolution and immune evasion make it challenging to achieve long-term population immunity against the virus,” said Dr. Hiam Chemaitelly, first author of the study and assistant ...

The dengue virus is a very simple organism – it has only 10 genes. It thus infects both mosquitoes and humans, which have tens of thousands of genes, and utilises their replication machinery to ...

Dengue virus infections can result in a range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic infection to dengue fever (DF) and the severe disease dengue haemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

The Director of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Specialist Dr. S.D.U.M. Ranga, has revealed that approximately 74 members of the hospital staff have contracted dengue fever over the past month. Dr.

Dengue fever is a common tropical infection. This acute febrile illness can be a deadly infection in cases of severe manifestation, causing dengue hemorrhagic shock. In this brief article, I will ...

Implement special precautions uh for our respiratory viruses and what this means is that certain areas of the hospital, particularly in high patient care areas um or other high risk areas such as ...