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Nov. 17, 2020 —Conservation of tropical peatlands could reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood of new diseases jumping from animals to humans, researchers ...
June 30, 2022 —Zika and dengue fever viruses alter the scent of mice and humans they infect, a team of researchers report. The altered scent attracts mosquitoes, which bite the host, drink their infected blood and ...
Sep. 15, 2020 —West Nile virus spreads most efficiently in the US at temperatures between 24-25 degrees Celsius (75.2-77 degrees Fahrenheit), a new study ...
Mar. 9, 2021 —An increase in overall hospitalizations was reported for older adults in the week following exposure to a tropical cyclone, according to a new study. Over 16,000 additional hospitalizations were ...
Aug. 23, 2021 —The highest-ever resolution imaging of an infectious prion provides the first atomic-level data of how these abnormal proteins are assembled to cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in people and ...
Oct. 14, 2020 —The first systematic review of how the severity of infectious diseases changes with age suggests that the human immune system might start to lose the ability to protect against infections earlier ...
Sep. 21, 2020 —New bioarchaeology research has shown how infectious diseases may have spread 4000 years ago, while highlighting the dangers of letting such diseases run ...
Aug. 13, 2020 —Columbus brought syphilis to Europe -- or did he? A recent study now indicates that Europeans could already have been infected with this sexually transmitted disease before the 15th century. In ...
Dec. 31, 2020 —The discovery of new drugs is vital to achieving the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa and around the world. Now, researchers have identified traditional Ghanaian medicines ...
Mar. 7, 2022 —A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and ...