Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV, are formidable opponents once they invade our bodies. Antiviral treatments strive to block a virus or halt its replication. However, viruses are dynamic ...

Feb. 4, visiting professor Derek A.T. Cummings at the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

“Rainfall creates breeding sites for mosquito eggs and larvae, but this does not immediately result in increased dengue risk,” explained Yacob, adding, “It takes time for these larvae to mature into ...

Ebola virus and Marburg virus are single-stranded, enveloped and negative sense-RNA viruses belonging to the Filoviridae family, and they both cause deadly hemorrhagic fevers in humans and mammals.

A new international study suggests that vaccines may be driving bird flu evolution, as efforts to contain the spread of the virus face increasing challenges. Amid growing concerns about potential ...

The dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in most tropical regions of Central and South America. It is known that when the number of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for this disease ...

The Hawai‘i Department of Health has identified a new case of travel-related dengue virus on Oʻahu. This is the first reported case of 2025. The affected traveler was exposed in a country where ...

On Tuesday, some residents on Lunalilo Home Road got notices from the department of a confirmed travel-related case of dengue virus. Malia Marquez found a letter taped to her gate and said her nei ...

Viruses are thriving across the United States and in Ohio, as the Buckeye State has been hit with a "quad-demic" of COVID-19, influenza, norovirus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that only ...

Meanwhile, heavy rains above 150 mm in a week reduce the dengue prevalence by flushing ... the time between feeding and laying eggs, the virus’s development inside the mosquito, and the time ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) identified a new dengue fever case on Oahu marking it as the first reported case of the year. The infected person recently traveled ...

The negative consequences relevant to public health include: While our attention is currently focused on the avian influenza virus and its pandemic potential ... Importantly, we can still prevent ...