Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.
The National Institutes of Health granted an IU professor $2.3 million for the research of the Dengue virus in September. Kay Choi, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry ...
A deadly disease is on the rise: dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that already affects millions and is spreading even further due to climate change. Despite its growing threat, dengue is hard to study ...
Why are some mosquitoes more likely to transmit dengue than others? A team of researchers has identified a genetic enzyme ...
This research comes as dengue-carrying mosquitoes expand their territory into new regions, including Southern California. Children who experience multiple cases of dengue virus develop an army of ...
HONOLULU (Island News) -- The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) identified a new dengue virus case on Oahu. The case that was discovered on Oct. 23, 2024 was found to be travel-related. This brings ...
Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus have been identified in Baldwin Park, bringing to five the recent total concentrated in the area and raising concerns of a “small local outbreak” of ...