How Indigenous knowledge helped solve a mysterious outbreak
When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...
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Black cat brings never-before-seen U.S. virus threat home to Florida scientist
One ebony-furred feline named Pepper is making scientific history by leading researchers to an unsettling discovery: the ...
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When This Black Cat Crossed His Path, It Was a Lucky Day for Medicine
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- When a black cat named Pepper dropped a dead mouse on the carpet at his owner's ...
Black Cat Brings More Than Treats: Unveiling a New Virus This Halloween
First find in the U.S. of jeilongvirus, which can rarely cause serious illness. A cat's routine prey retrieval in Gainesville ...
Researchers discover exotic jeilongvirus in rodent
On a warm May day, an all-black domestic shorthair cat named Pepper entered his Gainesville, Florida, home and dropped a dead ...
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A more common enemy: How climate change spreads diseases and makes them more dangerous
As the planet warms and disease-carrying animals like mosquitos follow their ideal temperatures northward and into higher altitudes, they may bring diseases such as West Nile virus to areas where they ...
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Researchers meld AI and genomics to find thousands of new viruses
One way to identify an RNA virus is to track down and isolate fragments of a specific gene that is essential for the virus to replicate: RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, or RdRP. RdRP is one of the ...
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Circulating mucosal-like IgA responses increase with severity of Puumala orthohantavirus-caused hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Despite the systemic nature of the disease, the virus enters humans through inhalation and therefore initially encounters the immunoglobulin class A (IgA) dominated mucosal immune system. Herein, we ...