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August 26th 2025
New research uncovers additional mosquito species as potential vectors for Japanese encephalitis virus, highlighting risks to swine and public health.
Study Uncovers a Lethal Secret of 1918 Influenza Virus
January 25th 2007MADISON, WI - 1/25/07 - In a study of nonhuman primates infected with the influenza virus that killed 50 million people in 1918, an international team of scientists found a critical clue to how the virus killed so quickly and efficiently.
AU professor develops egg-injected poultry vaccination against avian influenza
December 5th 2006Auburn, ALA. - 12/05/2006 - An Auburn University veterinary professor, in collaboration with researchers at Vaxin Inc. of Birmingham, has developed the first in ovo vaccine to protect chickens against avian influenza.
UC Davis Scientists Targeting Crows in War Against West Nile virus
September 11th 2006DAVIS, CALIF. - 9/8/06 - Corvids, including American crows, Yellow-billed Magpies, Western scrub-jays and other members of the Corvidae family, serve as the primary reservoirs or incubators for the mosquito-borne virus, according to research entomologist William Reisen of the Center for Vectorborne Diseases (also known as CVEC), a unit of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
West Nile virus infection: Essential facts for small-animal practitioners
May 1st 2005The media buzz may have quieted considerably, but West Nile virus continues to cause illness and death nationwide and is here to stay. Within six years of the initial detection of this exotic mosquito-borne virus in New York, it has spread to all continental states, through Canada and Mexico, and into Central America.