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18 New Mosquito Samples Test Positive For West Nile Virus

EAST END, NY — A total of 18 new mosquito samples have tested positive, with 10 on the East End — and residents and visitors are being asked to take precautions, officials said. According to Suffolk C... read more

Preliminary positive West Nile case reported in St. Joseph

First non-St. Louis case The woman's case was Missouri's first of a human West Nile infection outside the St. Louis area. The number of human cases of West Nile virus in Illinois jumped to 26 Thursday ... read more

4 Horses Sickened By EIA In Middle Tennessee

Staff at the C.E. Kord Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory tested blood samples and determined that four horses stabled at a farm in Rutherford County were positive for EIA ... including West Nile vir... read more

CRISPR-Cas9: A double-edged sword

The gene that was knocked out to create HIV resistance made the girls much more susceptible to the West Nile virus than ... who was HIV-positive, would not pass on the virus during pregnancy. It is hi... read more

New test distinguishes Zika from similar viral infections

A new test is the best-to-date in differentiating ... determine if a person’s infection is from the Zika virus or another virus of the same family, such as dengue and West Nile viruses. Zika is a mosq... read more

CDC reports highest West Nile virus caseload in years, but predicting outbreaks remains a challenge

So while West Nile virus was first detected in the United States in 1999 in New ... mosquitoes, Louisiana is no stranger to arboviruses, Balsamo noted, and so surveillance and reporting of neuroinvasi... read more

New Zealand Enlists Dung Beetles to Deal With Piles and Piles of Crap

In New Zealand, there’s a running joke that the sheep outnumber the people. What’s not funny is the consequence of all those woolly creatures: poop. Piles and piles of it. To reduce this overflowing c... read more

ILO-CIS Bulletin 1997/02

The main change is the replacement of Schedule 1 by a new Schedule which provides for the addition of 18 new substances to the list of substances assigned maximum exposure limits, the removal of 2 oth... read more

Woman may have contracted virus through blood transfer

With no blood screen test ... 18 people during her surgery. CDC investigators were collecting samples from all of these blood donors to check for traces of the virus. It is also possible that either o... read more

Wayland Board of Health: Remain Vigilant of Mosquitoes

While we do have one mosquito pool in Wayland that tested positive for West Nile Virus, Wayland is still identified by the state as an area of low risk for mosquito-borne illness as of Aug. 6. To date ... read more

Creationist beaned in Boston

Of the former, he declared that when we observe galaxies around ours, they are spread out equally to the “north, south, east and west” of Earth, and therefore we are literally at the center of the Uni... read more

Katrina rescue workers

But it doesn't sound like there is any incentive on the part of the same public officials who failed the people of New Orleans originally to do any better by them now. Why should they be anxious to ad... read more