A study published in PLoS Pathogens has now identified a protein named importin-7 (IPO7), as a carrier that transports ...

The Department of Health is urging residents and travellers to the Kimberley region to take extra precautions to prevent mosquito bites over the ...

The more work we can do now, the more it will pay off in case of a novel pandemic.” Kuhn is co-lead of the Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMPP (FLARE) grant, which will help direct efforts to understand ...

We will focus on compounds that target one of the following important enzymatic activities of the flavivirus NS5 protein: the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, which is essential for replication of the ...

West Nile is an RNA virus in the genus Flavivirus. It spreads by infected mosquitos that can bite you. Rabies is a dangerous ...

This showed it was a type of flavivirus and it was named Hepatitis C. And Prof Charles Rice, while at Washington University in St. Louis, applied the finishing touches in 1997. He injected a ...

Such a congenital malformation has not been seen with any other flavivirus or other arthropod-borne virus. Although experts were initially cautious about ascribing the cause of microcephaly to Zika ...

The first cases in the USA of infection with the mosquito vector-borne West Nile virus (WNV) - an enveloped, single-stranded RNA - occurred in 1999 in New York. Since then, it has moved westward ...