This research comes as many mosquito-borne viruses are spreading rapidly. Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting a ...

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Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey. Sporadic human infections were detected across Africa and Asia from the 1960s to the 1980s. Since 2007 outbreaks of Zika ...

Researchers in the United States have for the first time deliberately infected people with Zika virus, a breakthrough that could help advance our understanding of the disease and accelerate efforts to ...

A new study reveals the biological secret to the Zika virus's infectious success: Zika uses host cells' own 'self-care' system of clearing away useless molecules to suppress the host proteins that the ...

What makes Zika especially dangerous is its ability to hide in protected areas of the body, including the brain, eyes and reproductive organs, where it can linger undetected. Even more troubling, Zika ...

Planning a sunny getaway? You might want to pack a mosquito net. Health experts are warning about an emerging threat making waves in popular vacation destinations, as cases of the Oropouche virus have ...

The island of Oahu has at least one confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus, which can also be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

48 West Nile virus cases have been reported in the U.S. this year, the bulk of which have been in Arizona. That number of ...

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 study in Nature Communications, led by ...