Mosquito-Borne Disease

The NIH announced that it is launching a phase 2 human challenge trial of AV-1, an investigational monoclonal antibody to ease dengue virus symptoms when given before and after infection.

New Hampshire on Tuesday announced that a person in the state who tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus has died after being hospitalized with severe central nervous system diseases.

PCR-based West Nile virus testing using whole blood was effective and favored compared with plasma testing as an initial test for infection, researchers reported.

The mosquito is one of the world’s most impactful forces. The breadth of transmissible diseases caused by a mosquito bite, including malaria, has helped shape human history.

In retrospect, my path to infectious diseases began before I recognized it.

WHO on Wednesday recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas heavily impacted by the mosquito-borne disease, which kills more than 400,000 people a year.

July 6 is World Zoonoses Day, which is observed each year on the anniversary of Louis Pasteur administering the first rabies vaccine to a human in 1885.

In this video, Nitin Damle, MD, MS, MACP, past president of the ACP, discusses highlights from his presentation at the virtual ACP Internal Medicine Meeting on the health consequences of climate change.

Due to potential underreporting of CV complications in malaria infection, consistent monitoring for and treatment of CV complications may represent unmet areas in care, researchers reported.

For this year’s World Mosquito Day, the CDC called attention to the “worrying” spread of Anopheles stephensi — an urban mosquito that spreads quickly in man-made habitats.