Single-dose dengue vaccine will benefit populations in hard-to-reach regions
A world-first single-dose vaccine against the dengue virus, manufactured and approved for use in Brazil, will especially…
African statisticians provide new insights into malaria prevention
University of the Witwatersrand – Edson Mwebesa, Fellow at the Wits-based Sub-Saharan Africa Advanced Consortium for Biostatistics (SSACAB),…
Hong Kong records third local chikungunya fever case in Tsing Yi
Albert Au Ka-wing (right), head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection, and Anita…
Scientists unveil first cellular atlas of world’s most deadly mosquito
The first-ever cellular atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito has been created by scientists from Rockefeller University and…
99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva
The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the…
Using AI and citizen science for vector-borne disease surveillance
Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may…
Global study maps how trade and travel fuel the worldwide spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes
A comprehensive global analysis reveals how non-native mosquito vectors are hitchhiking across continents via shipping, tourism, and trade,…
Large-scale analysis offers insights into sporadic nature of chikungunya virus outbreaks
The symptoms come on quickly – acute fever, followed by debilitating joint pain that can last for months.…
Genomic studies reveal human influence on mosquito evolution and disease spread
Two of the world’s deadliest mosquito vectors – Aedes aegypti and Anopheles funestus – have evolved, spread, and adapted in ways that…
Waning Japanese encephalitis immunity linked to more severe dengue illness
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with researchers in Nepal, have found that waning immunity to Japanese…
New class of insecticide offers yearlong protection against mosquito-borne diseases
A relatively new class of insecticide that can be disseminated on something the size of a sheet of…
How a Réunion Island outbreak sparked France’s record chikungunya season
A surge of imported cases from Réunion Island triggered France’s earliest chikungunya season ever, testing the limits of…