Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

The host factors that drive adaptive substitutions in the influenza virus remain poorly understood. Here, Zou et al. identify GGCX as a key determinant for the adaption of Eurasian avian-like H1N1 ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

The samples were tested for a wide range of respiratory pathogens, including HMPV, COVID-19, influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenovirus, rhinovirus, enterovirus and ...

SINGAPORE - There were more than 13,600 cases of dengue locally in 2024, an increase of over 36 per cent from the year before. According to the latest statistics on the National Environment Agency ...

These areas are in Bedok, Sixth Avenue and Ang Mo Kio. “Among the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Singapore, dengue virus serotype 2 (DenV-2) has been predominant since September 2023, with ...

So far, there have been 66 human cases of bird flu reported in 10 states. In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu was detected in the United States, the virus has ...

Researchers say this approach could be used to reduce mosquito species linked with diseases like dengue fever and zika virus. Diseases passed to humans through mosquito bites could be reduced ...

Unlike the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, HMPV is a known virus, with established risks and countermeasures. However, it does pose a risk for vulnerable groups, such as ...

By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen covers global health. Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic almost exactly ...

The number of cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus that causes flu-like symptoms, is increasing in China. The country's disease control authority said it was monitoring the ...