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However, a dengue vaccine is available in the U.S. and is FDA approved for children between ages 9 and 16 who have a laboratory-confirmed previous dengue virus infection and who live in areas ...
An Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District worker begins the screening process for the presence of diseases like West Nile virus, Zika virus, Dengue fever or yellow fever at the agency ...
Another virus spread by mosquitoes, Eastern equine encephalitis, is less widespread but deadlier. This month, a 41-year-old New Hampshire man without any underlying medical problems died of EEE.
Dengue virus has four different serotypes, each of which are antigenically related but have limited cross-immunity to reinfection. [55] Although dengue fever has a global incidence of 50–100 million cases, only several hundreds of thousands of these cases are life-threatening.
The virus is believed to have entered in an infected bird or mosquito, although there is no clear evidence. [94] West Nile virus is now endemic in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, west and central Asia, Oceania (subtype Kunjin ), and most recently, North America and is spreading into Central and South America.
As if COVID, monkeypox and triple-digit heat indices aren’t enough to make you consider sealing yourself inside an air-conditioned hazmat suit, the announcement by Florida’s health department ...
Mayaro virus disease is a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen endemic to certain humid forests of tropical South America. Infection with Mayaro virus causes an acute, self-limited dengue-like illness of 3–5 days' duration. [1] The causative virus, abbreviated MAYV, is in the family Togaviridae, and genus Alphavirus.
The mosquito-borne virus has a long history in warm climates but is now also emerging in regions where it had been generally unheard of—such as in Europe and parts of the U.S. Dengue Fever Is ...