ALLMedicine™ West Nile Virus Center

Jul 31st, 2021 - West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging pathogen that causes disease syndromes ranging from a mild flu-like illness to encephalitis. While the incidence of WNV infection is fairly uniform across age groups, the risk of lethal encephalitis increases w...

Jul 28th, 2021 - Differentiating infiltrating myeloid cells from resident microglia in neuroinflammatory disease is challenging, because bone marrow-derived inflammatory monocytes infiltrating the inflamed brain adopt a 'microglia-like' phenotype. This precludes t...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - West Nile virus (WNV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) are mosquito-borne viruses in the family Flaviviridae. Residents in, and travelers to, areas where the viruses are circulating are at risk for infection, and both viruses can cause an acute febrile illne...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Chorioretinal lesions in West Nile virus infection: connecting the dots.|2021|Hébert M,Bostan C,Bamberger M,Oliver K,Aubin MJ,|

Jul 23rd, 2021 - BACKGROUND West Nile virus (WNv) is the leading cause of epidemic arbovirus encephalitis in the continental United States. Movement disorders (MDs) have been reported in 20% to 40% of patients with WNv and about 37% of patients with WNv encephalit...

Nov 26th, 2008 - Although there is currently no definitive evidence linking West Nile virus (WNV) transmission with reproductive cells, it is recommended that practitioners defer gamete donors who have confirmed or suspected WNV infections.

Apr 20th, 2020 - BACKGROUND: -There are numerous clinical trials underway in the National Cancer Institute Surgery Branch (NCI-SB) in which patients are administered autologous lymphocytes with antitumor activity generated from either peripheral blood mononuclear ...

Jul 4th, 2018 - Mosquito-borne diseases continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide despite on-going control efforts. In 2015, there were >200 million cases of malaria worldwide, causing nearly half a million deaths, with most of the deaths oc...

Jul 2nd, 2017 - Study Design: This is a Phase I open label study to evaluate safety, tolerability, and immune response of a recombinant DNA vaccine, VRC-WNVDNA017-00-VP. The hypothesis is that this regimen will be safe for human administration and elicit immune r...

Jul 2nd, 2017 - Investigation of the Natural History of West Nile Virus Infection in Patients with Recently Acquired West Nile Fever or Neuroinvasive Disease is a descriptive natural history study. Since the first reports of WNV disease in North America in 1999, ...

Jul 2nd, 2017 - Investigators will assess whether Omr-IgG-am(Trademark), an intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) containing antibodies specific for West Nile virus (WNV), is safe and well-tolerated in patients with suspected or laboratory diagnosed WNV disease. An i...

Aug 24th, 2020 - MADRID (Reuters) - The death toll in an outbreak of West Nile virus in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia has risen to two, after an 85-year old woman died in hospital, the regional health service said on Friday. Twenty-five people in Sevill...

Jul 20th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Bug spray, swollen welts, citronella. It's mosquito season. And in a normal year, the health department serving Ohio's Delaware County would be se...

May 6th, 2020 - Diseases carried and spread by mosquitos cause millions of deaths worldwide each year. In the United States, mosquito season starts as early as February, with most regions affected by April. The more significant diseases spread by these insects in...

May 5th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Viral, bacterial and autoimmune etiologies account for most cases of encephalitis in children, but more than four in 10 have no recognized cause, according to a new review of medical records. "With 42% of our cases stil...

Mar 14th, 2020 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic an emergency by invoking a law known as the Stafford Act. U.S. President Donald Trump arrives with Vice President Mike Pence to declare the coronavirus ...