These mosquitoes also carry and spread the dengue and the Zika virus. A spokesperson of the Sindh Health Department stated that this year, from May to September, 172 positive cases of Chikungunya ...

he 2024 U.S. presidential election has attracted intense global... Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, is grappling with a rise in cases of chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, ...

The virus does not directly spread from human to human. This cycle likely began after mosquitos bit infected animals. Chikungunya naturally exists in wild animals (like monkeys) that serve as a ...

Rwanda is facing its first ever Marburg virus outbreak. Beginning in late September, 62 cases and 15 deaths had been reported by 17 October, mostly among healthcare workers in Kigali, the capital ...

The water cycle is the vital Earth process that moves freshwater and moisture around the planet, and for the first time in human history, that system is breaking down. A new report from the Global ...

Chikungunya virus has spiraled into a full-blown epidemic in the metropolitan city as the caseload continues to mount. However, the high cost of diagnostic tests and lack of specific treatments ...

In addition to two virus- specific primers ... as a result, during replication of one of the DNA strands the enzyme will encounter the bound probe and cleave it, resulting in the release of ...

But this season, the award for the most surprising and probably temporarily debilitating spread of a vector-borne disease goes to the Chikungunya virus. A relative backbencher, which surfaced ...

She also specializes in professional staff development. Chickenpox (varicella-zoster) is a highly contagious virus that causes flu-like symptoms and an itchy rash that turns into blisters that ...

Mr. Quammen is the author of “Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.” Health officials would like to remind you that we are entering that time of the year still quaintly ...