A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of Chikungunya virus ...

The Chikungunya virus has been in the news lately as individuals who took the vaccine to prevent it were hospitalized. Many ...

Chikungunya Virus and Prospects for a Vaccine Scott C Weaver; Jorge E Osorio; Jill A Livengood; Rubing Chen; Dan T Stinchcomb Disclosures Expert Rev Vaccines. 2012;11 (9):1087-1101.

Valneva has claimed the accolade of becoming the first drugmaker to win FDA approval for a vaccine for chikungunya virus, a potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne disease. The French biotech ...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the ...

Trump’s new COVID-19 website features five arguments supporting the lab. Among them was the explanation that Wuhan – the Chinese city where the virus first began spreading – is home to a ...

The EMA's human medicines committee has recommended approval for Bavarian Nordic's chikungunya vaccine, which is shaping up to be the first alternative to a rival shot from Valneva. The CHIKV VLP ...

Dengue virus is an infectious agent that causes the tropical disease dengue fever in humans. This virus species is transmitted by mosquitoes (arthropods) and thus is an arbovirus. Gupta et al ...

Viral evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a virus accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune response ...

Sep. 17, 2024 — Scientists share detailed, complete images of a viral structure called the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. This breakthrough may accelerate the development of antivirals that target ...