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Researchers examine role of climate change in disease spread

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created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GALVESTON, Texas — Ever since scientists first proposed that our planet might be experiencing widespread climate change, concerns have been raised about its implications for the spread of arboviruses - viruses carried by ...





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Virus death toll rises in Kenya

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created Jan 26, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Officials in Kenya are trying to stop the spread of Rift Valley Fever, which has killed at least 148 people.


The  world's top agency for animal health said that climate hange is widening viral disease among farm animals

Climate change amplifying animal disease

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created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (27) | comments 3

Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday.


NASA Study Predicted Outbreak of Deadly Virus

Scientists Predicted 2006-2007 Outbreak of Deadly Virus

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created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An early warning system, more than a decade in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever in northeast Africa, according to a new study led by NASA scientists.


Researchers advance vaccine against Valley fever

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical mycologists in The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and the Department of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have significantly advanced the fight against San Joaquin ...


Uukuniemi virus helps to explain infection mechanism of bunyaviruses

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created Feb 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Uukuniemi virus is the first bunyavirus whose structure researchers have been able to determine. Together with more detailed studies of the viral membrane proteins, knowledge of the Uukuniemi virus may provide a basis ...


Working to eradicate dengue fever

Working to eradicate dengue fever

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created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project led by University of Notre Dame biologist Malcolm J. Fraser Jr. may soon lead to the eradication of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that annually infects more ...


Scientists closing the zap on dengue fever

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created Jan 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mosquito-borne virus that each year harms up to 100 million people and kills more than 20,000 is a step closer to being controlled after a breakthrough by Queensland scientists.


Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team from the University of Miami, University of El Paso and University of Rochester have employed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity ...


Rethinking the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine challenges the dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).


Researchers determine how mosquitoes survive dengue virus infection

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Colorado State University researchers have discovered that mosquitoes that transmit deadly viruses such as dengue avoid becoming ill by mounting an immediate, potent immune response. Because their immune system does not eliminate ...



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