A study led by a University of California, Riverside biomedical scientist shows how a family of tick-borne viruses known as ...

The medical journal The Lancet calls it a “mysterious” and “emerging” threat. PAHO, the Pan American Health Organization, has issued an epidemiological alert urging for increased prevention, ...

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The story of the rise and fall of western equine encephalitis as a lethal disease offers essential lessons about how a pathogen can gain or lose its ability to jump from animals to humans. That story ...

Lipid kinases are enzymes that play a critical role in both cell signaling and membrane trafficking by phosphorylating lipid molecules in the body. The inhibition of two of these lipid kinases, ...

Wastewater surveillance became a popular choice among public health officials looking to track rapid virus mutations and spread patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what if there was a way to ...

Scientists in China believe they've discovered a novel tickborne germ that can infect and sicken people, dubbed the Wetland virus. Reading time 3 minutes Ticks may cause even more harm to humans than ...

Over the last century, a once-deadly mosquito-borne virus has evolved so that it no longer sickens humans. New research shows that changes in the virus's ability to target human cells paralleled the ...