Arizona public health officials are warning that hantavirus, a virus spread by rodents to humans, is causing an increase in a ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

Although hantavirus diseases can be life threatening ... have been investigated using both inactivated virus and recombinant DNA technology. These approaches will be further discussed later ...

On a warm May day, an all-black domestic shorthair cat named Pepper entered his Gainesville, Florida, home and dropped a dead ...

First find in the U.S. of jeilongvirus, which can rarely cause serious illness. A cat's routine prey retrieval in Gainesville ...

and the identification of its etiologic agent—a previously unknown hantavirus now called sin nombre virus (SNV)—and its association with a widespread North American rodent, the deer mouse.

The virus, which is transmitted via insect bite, seems to be reaching new areas, undergoing genetic changes, and may harm fetuses. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology ...

“We were not anticipating a virus of this sort, and the discovery reflects the ... the wild rats and mice that serve as ...

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Fever is caused by the invasion of disease-causing viruses such as chikungunya virus, hantavirus, Salmonellaserovars, rhinovirus, adenovirus and influenza virus.The incubation period for these ...