Sentences with phrase «fever virus»

The key ally unlocking the mystery surrounding this conflict is the long - dreaded yellow fever virus.

After three weeks, puppies can regulate their body temperatures and will be able to fever the virus into submission.

The viruses were one of three types: the red fever virus, the blue chill virus, and the weird yellow virus.

But between 20 percent and 50 percent of people who develop severe illness related to yellow fever virus may die.

Curcumin, the active ingredient found in turmeric, stopped the potentially deadly Rift Valley Fever virus from multiplying in infected cells, say researchers at George Masion University.

«This is the first identification of CCHFV or any hemorrhagic fever virus in the archaeological record,» says Conner Wiktorowicz, the study's lead researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

«NIMR director - general, other research institutes will need to find out whether we are dealing with new strain of Lassa fever virus in the country,» Adewole said.

«This paper seeks to calculate precise figures for these assumptions, using data on traveller numbers and the export of other mosquito - borne viruses from other major sporting events in Brazil — principally the export of dengue fever virus from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The specificity of the rRT - PCR assay allows its use for differential diagnosis of arboviral infections in Africa and Asia where ZIKV co-circulates with other arboviruses such as Dengue, Chikungunya and yellow fever viruses [22].

In utero viral infection (bovine viral diarrhea [see Bovine Viral Diarrhea and Mucosal Disease Complex], bluetongue virus [see Bluetongue], and swine fever virus [see Classical Swine Fever]-RRB- during midgestation is the most common cause.

Developed and optimized protocols for detection of hemorrhagic fever viruses including Filoviruses, Arenaviruses and Bunyaviruses (Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Machupo, CCHF, Rift Valley Fever and others).

High - throughput molecular detection of hemorrhagic fever virus threats with applications for outbreak settings

«Mosquito - borne Rift Valley fever virus causes miscarriage.»

Dr. Kevin Myles, Glady «Hazitha» Samuel and Dr. Zach Adelman are Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists at Texas A&M University, College Station, who published «Yellow fever virus capsid protein is a potent suppressor of RNA silencing that binds double - stranded RNA.»

«I have been on at least half a dozen conference calls about this,» says Lisa Hensley, an expert in hemorrhagic fever viruses at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Frederick, Maryland.

Made into a permanent programme in 2009, it set out to sequence the genomes of potential bioterror agents, explore new drug technologies and develop «broad - spectrum» therapies that would work against multiple bacterial and viral pathogens — especially haemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola and Marburg.

USAMRIID has been working in the region since 2006, when it began a collaborative project to develop and refine diagnostic tests for the Lassa fever virus endemic to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

New research has taken us a step closer to finding a cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as well as other infections including the glandular fever virus, which is associated with the development of lymphoma.

The discovery that the dengue fever virus needs to bend into a circle in order to replicate suggests new ways to treat this and similar diseases, including West Nile virus and encephalitis, say researchers.

Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe infection with Zika virus, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

Most people who get West Nile don't even know it, but 90 percent of those infected with the Rift Valley fever virus become demonstrably ill.

This would be expected to be feasible given the success of yellow fever virus across all varieties of that disease, so this prediction urgently needs to be confirmed for Zika.

The extrinsic incubation period of dengue and yellow fever viruses also is dependent on temperature.

A study of 130 pregnant Sudanese women with fever showed that the risk of miscarriage was seven times greater if the woman was infected with Rift Valley fever virus.

The condition can be associated with in utero infection by viruses such as the virus of Border disease (see Border Disease) or swine fever virus (see Classical Swine Fever) or exposure to trichlorfon (see Trichlorfon).

Since that 3:00 a.m. revelation in 2002, Dr. Sabeti has continued to take on big challenges, notably the deadly Lassa fever virus.

Now, using a novel technique based on analyzing ancient proteins, archaeologists have reconstructed the contents of these vessels to conclude that the individual likely died from Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a severe tick - borne disease that still kills people across the world today.

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported one of its largest emergency vaccination campaigns for the yellow fever virus in Africa.

Zika is a member of the flavivirus family (which also includes Yellow Fever virus, dengue virus, West Nile virus and many other viruses primarily spread by mosquito vectors) and I do not know of any others in this family that have been shown to be sexually transmitted.

Their initial cell culture experiments indicated that 25HC can block Zika and related viruses, including dengue and yellow fever viruses, from entering cells.

Yellow fever virus is transmitted to people from mosquitos, primarily in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa.

Yellow fever virus is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa.

The women infected with Rift Valley fever virus had a seven times greater risk of miscarriage.

The dengue antibodies were a red herring, he says: both researchers had been vaccinated for the yellow fever virus, which is closely related to dengue; antibodies against these viruses often cross-react.

Rift Valley fever is caused by the Rift Valley fever virus, which is mostly transmitted by mosquitoes and affects many different animal species including humans.

The mosquito - borne Rift Valley fever virus has been linked to miscarriage in humans.

«More research is needed before we reach that point though, but as ironic as it may seem, we are using the yellow fever virus, once arguably the most feared pestilence in the Western Hemisphere, to help us defeat the Zika virus and quite possibly others as well.»

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.

«The most well - known bunyaviruses include, for example, the Rift Valley fever virus, which can cause febrile illnesses with severe bleeding in humans,» says Dr. Sandra Junglen from the Bonn Institute of Virology, also affiliated with the German Center for Infection Research.

Dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses are endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, placing 2.5 billion people at risk for infection.

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

Zika is a member of the flavivirus family of viruses, which includes West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, and dengue viruses, for which successful vaccines have been developed.

The mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever virus, requires a blood meal to develop eggs.

Though this study, appearing Oct. 20 in Cell Host Microbe, focused on the hepatitis C virus, it also mapped the presence of these tags in other members of the same viral family, including Zika, dengue, West Nile and yellow fever virus.

Unfortunately, I accidentally infected myself with Rift Valley Fever virus — but luckily this meant no more than an uncomfortable few days in hospital and it didn't spread to anyone else.

In January the biopharmaceutical company Acambis, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced successful mouse trials of a West Nile vaccine based on a weakened strain of the yellow fever virus.

The deadly Rift Valley fever virus is on the move.