in many hantavirus-infected acutely ill patients, to inform on the specific virus causing infection and the viral load in the blood, allowing a better understanding of clinical course and ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

In Europe, hantavirus disease or hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is an endemic zoonosis that affects tens of thousands of individuals each year. The causative agents are viruses of the genus ...

A rodent disease that can be spread to humans and has no cure has killed several people in the US and prompted a health ...

Arizona public health officials are warning that hantavirus, a virus spread by rodents to humans, is causing an increase in a ...

In industrialized nations, polio, smallpox, rubella and measles may have been curbed but new threats like AIDS, Lyme disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and West Nile virus encephalitis have ...

Mice contaminate food, chew up everything in sight, and spread illnesses through their urine, saliva, and droppings, says ...

Despite accumulating evidence in support of sex-based differences in innate and adaptive immune responses, in the susceptibility to infectious diseases and in the prevalence of autoimmune diseases ...

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Oct. 30, 2024 — Chronic, low-level lead poisoning is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults and cognitive deficits in children, even at levels previously thought to be safe ...

Fifth disease, also known as erythema infectiosum, is a contagious viral illness caused by parvovirus B19. It is most common in children, but it can also affect adults. The main symptom of fifth ...

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax ...