If you plan on traveling abroad this summer, especially to regions within South America or Africa, it’s imperative to be aware of your risk of yellow fever, a potentially deadly flavivirus endemic to ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Phase 1 clinical trial to determine if an experimental vaccine created by the Danish ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

In a recent article published in the journal Viruses, researchers study the challenges impeding the development of vaccines against flaviviruses, which are single-stranded ribonucleic acid (ssRNA) ...

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the new yellow fever vaccine is as safe and effective as the currently licensed yellow fever vaccines. Eligibility criteria are: age 18–59 inclusive, ...

In one of the first molecular studies of the human antibody response to yellow fever, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers and their colleagues have found the crucial bit of virus that ...

Researchers now report the first use of CRISPR genome-wide screening to identify a gene that helps cells resist flavivirus infection. UT Southwestern researchers today report the first use of CRISPR ...

Researchers have identified a new class of compounds that may inhibit West Nile virus in humans. West Nile virus, a member of the flavivirus family which also includes dengue virus and yellow fever ...

The Edo state government has confirmed the spread of the Yellow Fever epidemic to 10 Local Government Areas in the state. According to Punch, Osifo also revealed that nine people have died as a result ...

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the new yellow fever vaccine is as safe and effective as the currently licensed yellow fever vaccines. Eligibility criteria include: age 18–59 ...