NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus infection in Victoria, Australia, two additional cases of MVE virus infection, including one death, have been confirmed in...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Victoria Department of Health reported a case of Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus infection in a a woman in her sixties who died in early February. The case spent time...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Camden County (NJ) Department of Health and Human Services reported a Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) case in a resident of Pine Hill. On September 21, laboratory...

By Robert Herriman @bactiman63 Researchers from the University of Florida in a new study report the mosquito, Aedes scapularis is now established in mainland Florida in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. How...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention received confirmation this week from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that an adult resident of Cumberland...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the state of Pernambuco, in the Northeast region of Brazil, reported a significant increase in three arbovirus infections in 2019, according to a UOL report (computer...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New Hampshire state health officials reported Wednesday on the second case of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) infection of the year. The patient is an adult from Lanconia....

Researchers at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and QUT have found that the dengue fever mosquito common to parts of Queensland poses the greatest danger of spreading the Zika virus in Australia. The...

Five years ago, Bill Gates wrote in his blog that the deadliest animal in the world is the mosquito. When it comes to killing humans, no other animal even comes close. According to the World Health Organization,...

Last week we learned of the emergence of yet another mosquito-borne virus. It’s called Madariaga virus and the human cases were confirmed in several schoolchildren in Haiti–the first time...