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The CDC lists freely associated states and six U.S. territories as areas with “frequent or continuous dengue transmission,” including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Virtually all children get an RSV infection by the time they are 2, the CDC said. But the virus can cause complications in vulnerable populations, including infants, children under 2, people over ...
The Centers for Disease Control released a health advisory on Tuesday, alerting health providers about the surge in dengue fever cases. The virus is spreading worldwide, but specifically ...
Dengue virus (DENV) is the cause of dengue fever.It is a mosquito-borne, single positive-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae; genus Flavivirus. [1] [2] Four serotypes of the virus have been found, and a reported fifth has yet to be confirmed, [3] [4] [5] all of which can cause the full spectrum of disease. [1]
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [a] also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. [2] Its name is derived from the large cells known as syncytia that form when infected cells fuse. [2] [3]
The latest CDC alert advises health care providers to have increased suspicion of dengue among people with fever, especially if they have recently been in areas with frequent dengue transmission.
[51] This live-attenuated vaccine, developed by Takeda is similar to the Dengvaxia vaccine in the fact that it contains a weakened version of the four variants of dengue virus. The difference between the two vaccines is the TAK-003 vaccine can be administered without a prior dengue infection and it also induces cellular immunity against dengue ...
There have been more than twice as many cases of dengue fever across North, South and Central America — more than 9.7 million — in the first half of 2024 than there were in all of 2023, the ...