Increasing numbers of Powassan virus cases have led to a greater need to monitor and track the disease. However, testing has been difficult, bringing up a number of false positives. Scientists are ...

Waiting is the hardest part. Especially in the case of testing for water or food contamination, which can take days or even a week in some cases for the results, leaving the possibility that people ...

Researchers at UMass Amherst have developed a new, more accurate test method for detecting a life-threatening tick-borne virus that is increasing in prevalence in Massachusetts, according to the ...

Researchers have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive disease, including encephalitis and ...

Inherently vulnerable to viral contamination, biologics rely on animal- or human-derived starting materials and complex manufacturing processes. Albeit rare, viral contamination incidents are ...

Symptoms of the Zika virus can be masked by simultaneous infection with other mosquito-borne viruses like dengue fever and chikungunya. To solve this issue, researchers have developed a comprehensive ...

Delaware is among several U.S. states using chickens to detect pathogens that can be transmitted from mosquitoes to people. These sentinel chickens are stationed in pens around the state in areas ...

Here's how Nipah virus spreads in India, early symptoms, testing methods, risk factors and why rapid surveillance is key to preventing fatal outbreaks.

A study team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), led by Professor Junfeng Wang, recently created a more effective method to test the SARS-CoV-2 ...

A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Dr Samuel Jones from Birmingham’s School of Chemistry led ...