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Person dies from tick-borne virus in Bayfield County The patient was one of three Powassan virus cases reported in Wisconsin so far this year, all of which required hospitalization.
The Powassan virus is spread when infected deer ticks bite humans, Wisconsin health officials said.
POWV is a tickborne virus spread by the blacklegged (deer) tick, the same tick that spreads Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and several other diseases in Wisconsin.
Kelvin Okafor is using his latest exhibition, “Drawing Awareness,” to call attention to different skin conditions, with portraits of people including model Winnie Harlow and singer Seal.
A hepatitis A outbreak tied to food and person-to-person transmission has sickened over 2,000 people and killed nine across four major European travel destinations.
Four European travel hotspots have experienced an outbreak of the liver infection hepatitis A, leaving thousands sickened and nine dead.
The survivors in "28 Years Later" have to contend with dangerous new variants of the infected in Danny Boyle's sequel.
The opening scene of 28 Days Later explained the origin of the Rage Virus, but there are still many questions that remain unanswered.
By engineering the mRNA vaccine to produce virus-like particles, we trick the immune system into thinking it's encountering a real virus.
This report describes three cases of clade Ib MPXV infection in pregnant women (one in each trimester of gestation) with molecular and histopathological evidence of transplacental transmission.
Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used objectively to set vaccine policy.
Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.