A Bowen man has become the first in Queensland thought to have died from Japanese encephalitis since 2022. Public health officials are concerned the risk of exposure to the virus may increase ...

A surge of infections from a tropical virus is raising alarm among public health officials because it appears to be causing birth defects similar to those associated with Zika virus. Known as ...

particularly Culex tritaeniorhynchus. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says most people infected with Japanese encephalitis do not have symptoms or have only mild symptoms. “However, a ...

Figure 5 Phylogenetic tree generated by Bayesian analysis of Culex flavivirus (CxFV ... JS-Cxt-C-2-1 had 99.5% genetic identity with the DD1716 strain detected in Cx. tritaeniorhynchus in Dandong City ...

C1, Cosmopolitan 1 sub-genotype; C2, Cosmopolitan 2 sub-genotype. Figure 5 Phylogenetic tree generated by Bayesian analysis of Culex flavivirus (CxFV) complete genome. The GenBank accession number, ...

As Science News noted, “Even if the mosquitoes prove competent at passing along Zika, there remain questions of whether their tastes, behavior, and ecology will lead them to actually do so.” ...