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Just the Vax, Please: A Dengue Vaccine – This Time It’s Personal

April 7, 2014January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

Everything hurt. For the first time in my life, I could feel the tiny muscles behind my eyeballs. And they ached. It all ached. I

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First Case of Zika Virus reported on Easter Island

March 7, 2014January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Zika virus (ZIKV), a rare but benign mosquito borne illness, is spreading across the islands of the south pacific. The Disease Daily recently published a

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Soaring Numbers of Bald Eagle Deaths Due to West Nile Virus

January 7, 2014January 25, 2023 Amy L. Sonricker Hansen

Throughout the month of December scientists have been working to determine the cause of twenty-nine bald eagle deaths in the state of Utah. Many of

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New Flu Virus Found in Bats

October 31, 2013January 25, 2023 Amy L. Sonricker Hansen

According to a new study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers have discovered a new flu virus in fruit bats from Peru. The new

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Discovery and Implications of New Virus in Stranded Dolphin

July 18, 2013January 25, 2023 Alexandra Thomsen

A new virus has been associated with respiratory illness and resulting death in a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), according to researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman

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Ebola: Still the Scariest Virus Out There?

April 3, 2013January 25, 2023 Steven Purcell

Simply uttering the word Ebola is enough to cause a person to cringe, shudder, twitch, or perhaps even recoil in horror. Rightly so. Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF),

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Why 223 Cases of Polio Still Matter

April 3, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

For many Americans, especially young adults, poliovirus not only has no relevance to their lives, they may not even be sure what it is or

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Organ Transplant Leads To Rabies Infection and Death

March 18, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

Last Friday, March 15, the CDC confirmed that a rabies death in Maryland was caused by an organ transplant from an infected donor. Three other

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Think This Year’s Flu Was Bad? Next Year May Be Worse

March 13, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

If there’s one virus outside of the common cold that most of us have had firsthand experience with, it’s clearly influenza. That alone makes it one virus everyone

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Usutu Virus Highlights Importance of Disease Surveillance Primary tabs

February 14, 2013January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

In 2001, the city of Vienna, Austria noticed a strange and sudden disappearance of its Eurasion Blackbird population. Researchers and scientists were equally puzzled by

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