Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing ...

The engineered virus simply sticks around long enough to make the proteins needed to induce ... to a live attenuated virus derived from the yellow fever virus. In a small clinical study of human ...

A Harvard scientist, Max Thieler, showed in 1930 that mice were susceptible to the yellow fever virus. Using mouse and chick embryos, Thieler later developed the most effective vaccine against ...

A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine involving scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute ...

Dengue Virus Genome and Structure The dengue virus genome is a single strand of RNA. It is referred to as positive-sense RNA because it can be directly translated into proteins. The viral genome ...

A vaccine candidate against Lassa virus completely protected guinea pigs exposed to an otherwise lethal dose of the virus, researchers from Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), The ...

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels ... which includes West Nile, dengue and yellow fever viruses, and is typically transmitted by vectors, or living organisms that carry the pathogen and infect ...

After approximately half a century of epidemiological silence, the yellow fever virus was detected again in 2000, in the state of São Paulo. Since its reintroduction, four outbreaks have been ...

While the figures released by PAHO did not include any Caribbean country, it warned nonetheless that yellow fever is a serious viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, which can be fatal but is ...