Sentences with phrase «by yellow fever»

One of the best birding reserves in the country, Ndumo has a series of gorgeous pans surrounded by yellow fever trees and extensive wetlands, sand forest, acacia savannah and reedbeds.

The AgriLife Research team found a protein that is produced by yellow fever virus, as well as Zika virus, West Nile virus and dengue virus, that suppresses the immune response of the mosquito.

Not exact matches

But it wasn't until 1901 that a team led by Maj. Walter Reed proved the connection between mosquitoes and yellow fever, so Blackburn didn't know in 1864 and 1865 that his plan could never work.

Yellow fever is a blood - borne virus spread by certain female mosquitoes.

But upon arriving, the family was quarantined by Italian authorities, who feared (mistakenly) that they had contracted yellow fever in New York.

Its early members included Nicolás José Gutiérrez, the physician who introduced anesthesia in Cuba, Felipe Poey y Aloy, Latin America's most famous ichthyologist at the time, and the renowned physician and scientist, Carlos Finlay, who first determined that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.

Yellow fever was not definitively shown to be transmitted by mosquitoes for another three decades.

Yellow fever is not transmitted by contact with another sick person, but instead by contact with the mosquitoes itself.

«A novel «chimeric» vaccine for dengue has been created by adding parts of the virus to a yellow fever vaccine»

The team is also interested in learning more about where the viruses replicate in mosquitoes, and by potentially examining yellow fever, a fourth virus that is carried by Aedes aegypti, as a possibility for coinfection with chikungunya, dengue or Zika viruses.

Furthermore, the defects observed are specific to an infection by ZIKV, as other neurotropical viruses of the flavivirus family (West Nile virus, yellow fever,...) did not cause microcephaly, in contrast to Zika virus.

In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known primary vector, the yellow fever mosquito.

Yellow fever was then eradicated by destroying mosquito breeding grounds.

The commission confirmed that yellow fever, like malaria, was transmitted by mosquitoes.

Suspected and confirmed cases of yellow fever by province of reporting, Angola, 5 December 2015 - 22 May 2016.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently brokered deals in several African and South American countries to vaccinate 584 million people for yellow fever over the next decade, with a goal of eliminating all outbreaks worldwide by 2026.

Given that outbreaks of yellow fever in urban settings have the potential for rapid spread and that significant yellow fever epidemics are ongoing in Angola, DRC and Uganda, a range of options for response by EU / EEA Member States are presented in the updated rapid risk assessment.

Cator and her colleagues are particularly interested in the painful and often fatal viruses carried by A. aegypti: yellow fever and dengue, also known as breakbone fever.

In their forthcoming paper in the Journal of Medical Entomology, «Factors of Concern Regarding Zika and Other Aedes aegypti - Transmitted Viruses in the United States,» Max J. Moreno - Madriñán of the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and independent research entomologist Michael Turell argue that a leading factor in outbreaks of Zika, yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya — all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito — is low socioeconomic conditions in developing countries.

Yellow fever is caused by an arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae, and is one of the smallest RNA viruses isolated.

By analyzing the affected animals, the scientists isolated an aggressive new flavivirus, a class of viruses that includes yellow and dengue fevers — the first flavivirus ever identified in ducks.

Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.

According to new research in the journal PLOS ONE by scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and Panama's government research institute, INDICASAT, mosquitoes in the genus Aedes, which carry a group of dangerous viruses causing yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, invaded the crossroads of the Americas multiple times, by land and by sea.

The yellow fever virus is primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species that also spreads Zika and dengue.

Indeed, weakening influenza strains by passaging them in animals is an old technique for making human vaccines, including those for polio and yellow fever, according to virologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University.

That's because the proteins passed on by the male yellow fever mosquito do not trigger female rejection, Bargielowski said.

On the other hand, a female yellow fever mosquito mated by a male Asian tiger mosquito can not re-mate and produces no offspring.

However, Acambis's Thomas Monath points out that the vehicle strain used by Acambis has been used safely and effectively as a vaccine against yellow fever for decades, whereas the dengue chimera's safety is comparatively untested.

PAHO / WHO has been working with member countries for a number of years on vector control and in the coming weeks will convene experts from throughout the Americas to discuss new, more effective and integrated mosquito control strategies that would help reduce not only Zika infections but also cases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and West Nile virus — all of which are spread by mosquitoes and are significant public health problems in the Americas.

«With diseases spread by biting insects, such as Zika, standard quarantine measures are useless, so stopping an outbreak in its tracks requires a vaccine - led approach, as we are currently seeing carried out for Zika's relative, yellow fever, in Angola and neighbouring countries.

Nearly 1 billion people will be vaccinated against yellow fever in 27 high - risk African countries by 2026 with support from WHO, Gavi — the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and more than 50 health partners...

The authors cite work by Bali Pulendranâ $ ™ s laboratory on â $ œsystems vaccinologyâ $ and their analysis of the yellow fever vaccine as an example.

There are 3500 species of mosquito — the urban transmission of Zika (and dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever) is by two species that have nothing to do with the anophelines that transmit malaria.

Col. Thomas reminds us, «The WRAIR has been studying flaviviruses for over 100 years, since Walter Reed and his team discovered that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.»

Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been awarded $ 2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to study a category of viruses that cause dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever and other diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks.

This line of research grew out of the discovery by Pulendran and colleagues that GCN2 is pivotal for induction of immunity to the yellow fever vaccine.

The seven - LP reissue of Yellow Fever (1976), No Agreement (1977), JJD (1977), VIP (1979), Coffin for Head of State (1980), Army Arrangement (1984), and Underground System (1992) were selected for this box set by Erykah Badu.

II) and Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, about the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of the eponymous year, simply are engaging stories set in distant times and places.

His books include: «An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793,» published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; «Blizzard!

Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, West Nile virus, and various types of encephalitis are all carried by mosquitoes, and some of the diseases they carry are literally strong enough to kill a horse.

► Visitors to Zanzibar are required by law to have a Yellow Fever vaccination certificate when they enter the country.

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This mosquito species thrives in trash - strewn, puddly cities, bites in daylight (limiting the utility of bed nets) and has long posed a peril by carrying a host of dangerous ailments, including yellow fever, chikungunya and dengue.

In the Americas, epidemic dengue was effectively controlled along with epidemic yellow fever in most of the region by the Ae aegypti eradication program that eliminated the mosquito from 23 countries during the 1950s and 1960s [2, 20].

arbovirus any of various viruses transmitted by arthropods and including the causative agents of dengue fever, yellow fever, and some encephalitis

Neither virus causes fatalities in healthy people, but there are several other arboviral infections (various encephalitis viruses, yellow fever, west Nile fever and Rift Valley fever) carried by the insect as well as a dog roundworm that also infects wild animals and cats.

Arbovirus - Any of various viruses transmitted by blood - sucking arthropods (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, etc.) and including the causative agents of dengue fever, yellow fever, and some types of encephalitis.

Further, if you've lived in the U.S. all your life, you've probably never had the one vaccination required by International Health Regulations — the vaccine for yellow fever.

The only vaccine required by the International Health Regulations is the yellow fever vaccination for travel in certain countries.