Mosquito-Borne Infectious Disease

A test developed to detect Cache Valley virus and other similar and uncommon viruses yielded fast and accurate results, which could make testing for these viruses easier in the future, according to a study.

Scientists should conduct routine surveillance of Everglades virus — a subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus — endemic to South Florida because it has the potential to jump to humans, researchers said.

The release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes led to a 77% reduction in the incidence of symptomatic dengue in an Indonesian city, according to researchers, who said the same approach could be used to fight other mosquito-borne diseases.

Surpassing the previous record of cases reported for 2016, the United States reached another all-time high with 2,161 confirmed cases of malaria in 2017, data published in MMWR showed.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can obtain and transmit Zika virus more easily than a sub-Saharan Africa-dwelling relative, potentially explaining why the Americas suffered a large Zika outbreak and Africa did not, researchers said.