New York City is planning to spray pesticides to help prevent the spread of mosquitoes, and potential diseases. The announcement comes days after Dr Anthony Fauci, former National Institute of ...

They’ve found thousands Maryn McKenna; Photographs by Gaia Squarci It was January in New York City, drizzly and ... of the past generation—West Nile virus, SARS, MERS, Ebola—began when ...

As Sacramento and Yolo counties gear up for another potential spike in West Nile virus cases, public health officials are ...

SO WE’RE SEEING MOSQUITO SEASONS ARE GETTING LONGER EVERY SINGLE YEAR. WE DO HAVE THE PREVALENCE OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN OUR REGION EVERY SINGLE YEAR. LAST YEAR WE HAD 129 HUMAN CASES THROUGHOUT ...

The $153,700 program will target standing water in wetlands, ditches, and storm drains while testing for multiple mosquito-borne diseases, including the West Nile Virus.

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States ... that would be more suggestive that it is a new WNV strain or a slightly different strain coming from ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) confirmed a travel-related case of West Nile virus in a Shelby County resident. SCHD said that the Shelby County resident had recently ...

Severe infection with West Nile virus is a spreading problem worldwide that disproportionately affects those over age 50. And evidence is mounting that when the virus causes sickness, the long ...

Dengue virus pushes dendritic cells to churn out molecules called pro-inflammatory cytokines, which send the immune system into overdrive. The virus spreads to new host cells as the body grapples ...

Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting a host's dendritic cells. But a new Nature Communications study ...