Two Bengal tiger cubs born in Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo last year have died from a viral infection, a conservation official told AFP on Friday. The cubs, two males named Huru and Hara, were born last July to tigress Jelita, who remains in good health. According to the conservation agency of West Java province, the cubs … Read more
A drug that is already in clinical trials against hepatitis C virus can also prevent hepatitis E virus from replicating. Around 70,000 people die each year from infections with the hepatitis E virus. There is currently neither a vaccine nor a specific drug against this virus. This could change with the identification of bemnifosbuvir as … Read more
A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from replicating inside an infected host or prevent the virus from transmitting to others. New research led by Penn State scientists suggests there may not have to be a tradeoff. The study in animal models, published today … Read more
Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify it to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu Fabra University published in Nature Communications. The study identifies enzymes that modify transfer RNAs (tRNAs) –small cellular … Read more
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report in Science Advances a breakthrough in human norovirus (HuNoV) research. Norovirus is a leading cause of acute viral gastroenteritis worldwide with severe outcomes mostly among young children, the elderly and people with weakened or compromised immune systems. There are currently no approved vaccines or antiviral therapies, and management … Read more
Researchers warn that canine coronavirus, which has been linked to human respiratory illness in Southeast Asia, and influenza D, commonly found in cows, deserve closer monitoring to prevent future human outbreaks. RT’s Three Key Takeaways: Underrecognized Zoonotic Threats: Influenza D virus and canine coronavirus, both originating in animals, have shown signs of human infection and … Read more
Bats, critical reservoirs of viruses with significant cross-species spillover risks, have long been understudied in the Indochina Peninsula. A study led by researchers from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and their partners has unveiled the region’s bat virome diversity, offering key insights into the origins of porcine epidemic diarrhea … Read more
A person is vaccinated against influenza, which is causing high numbers of illnesses and hospitalizations in the United States and elsewhere.Credit: H.Bilbao/Europa Press/Getty As millions of bedridden people can attest, influenza is surging around the world. The virus has driven a wave of illness and hospitalizations in countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy and … Read more
Wan X. Lessons from emergence of A/goose/Guangdong/1996-like H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses and recent influenza surveillance efforts in Southern China. Zoonoses Public Health. 2012;59:32–42. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Lewis NS, Banyard AC, Whittard E, Karibayev T, Al Kafagi T, Chvala I, et al. Emergence and spread of novel H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 … Read more
Identification of tick species A total of 1093 ticks were collected and subjected to morphological and molecular identification, which were identified as four genera and nine species, namely Hyalomma anatolicum, Hyalomma asiaticum, Dermacentor marginatus, Dermacentor pavlovskyi, Rhipicephalus turanicus, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Haemaphysalis longicornis, Haemaphysalis punctata, and Haemaphysalis danieli. Hy. asiaticum (72.0%, 787/1093) was the dominant tick … Read more