Avoiding insect bites is key to preventing these nasty viral infections. Insects that can infect humans with arboviruses include fleas, ticks, gnats, and mosquitoes. There are over 130 different ...

Recent clinical data support an increase in the frequency of coinfection in human patients, raising the likelihood that mosquitoes could be exposed to multiple arboviruses during one feeding episode.

As approximately 500 arboviruses are recognized, the potential for any to emerge as a human pathogen exists. A combination of factors (including ecology, host status and virology), combining under ...

Roughly 17% of all infectious diseases are caused by arboviruses. These diseases are transmitted to humans by arthropods, which are animals with jointed legs, such as insects, spiders ...

The technology used to sequence SARS-CoV-2 at record speed early in the COVID-19 pandemic has been successfully tested as a technique to monitor arboviruses and diseases transmitted mainly by ...

Climate change is promoting the global spread of arboviruses The changing climate is making new areas suitable for arbovirus transmission Increased awareness and proactive measures are essential ...

All told, the CDC tracks nine mosquito-borne diseases in a surveillance system dedicated to monitoring so-called arboviruses—viruses transmitted by arthropods—that are spread by mosquitoes and ...

From the perspective of viruses spread by insects, or arboviruses, making the evolutionary leap from insects to humans is a tough battle. Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the Regional Mosquito Control Agency (ARD) and the National Reference Center for Arboviruses (Inserm-Irba), have demonstrated that the ...

From the perspective of viruses spread by insects, or arboviruses, making the evolutionary leap from insects to humans is a tough battle. Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means ...

For those who study Oropouche and other arboviruses—the family of viruses transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes and ticks—the situation is worrying. Despite having clues about its trans ...