WNV infection is an evolving disease, taking on a variety of clinical manifestations and often presenting with a confounding set of signs and symptoms. Because of this perplexing symptomatology ...

Those who have been recently vaccinated against or recently infected with related flaviviruses (yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, dengue) may have false positive WNV MAC-ELISA results.

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have uncovered a gene in fruit flies that plays a crucial role in their courtship ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

such as West Nile encephalitis, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the virus invades the nervous system during severe infections, the risk of long-term effects soars.

Climate change poses as a biggest environmental threat. It substantially affects pathogens (parasites, viruses and bacteria), ...

The likely next secretary of Health and Human Services scared me with a cruel and misleading statement—and that’s the danger ...

Much of this depends on climate patterns. “The warmer it is, the more pests will thrive and the more populations we’ll see,” ...