VideoA funny-sounding bacteria that you’ve never heard of—Wolbachia—will likely be an important weapon in the fight against Zika, dengue and other viruses plaguing the tropics. These arbovirus infections have been exploding in Latin America and the Caribbean and…
A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock of approximately 44,400 birds in Sac County, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. While the HPAI H5N1 outbreak has been ongoing since February…
The nation’s biggest outbreak in Illinois has sickened close to 1 million chickens H5N1 bird flu activity is spiking at poultry farms across the U.S., with 1.32 million birds affected over the past month, according to the latest federal data. Illinois’s Clinton County…
A purely computational study screened 407,270 natural compounds against the dengue virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and identified four candidates with predicted binding stronger than a reference inhibitor, pending experimental validation. Subject of Research: Computational identification of natural product inhibitors of the…
Bird flu is hitting Washington dairy farms and it's spreading fast. The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed the first detections in two Yakima County dairy herds in early October. On Oct. 26, the agency reported the highly pathogenic avian influenza…
by George Jared 14 hours ago 468 views The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is asking poultry producers, industry partners, and the public to remain alert for signs of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and to follow biosecurity measures to protect flocks as…
Today (Wednesday), Gov. Kim Reynolds authorized a disaster declaration for Sac County, effective immediately through Nov. 27. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed a positive case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at a Market On 30 Spook-Tacular Candy…
A pretrained vision transformer called RAVEN predicts highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak risk across Canada up to two weeks in advance, outperforming classical machine learning baselines on both domestic poultry and wild bird datasets. AI Model Forecasts Avian Influenza Outbreak…
A retrospective study of 425 patients in China found metagenomic next-generation sequencing detected tuberculosis with 90.1% sensitivity, outperforming six routine diagnostic tests. News Source: Ophelia Keating. (October 29, 2026). Rapid Sequencing Outperforms Routine Tests in Detecting Tuberculosis, Study Finds. Scienmag.
A computational study has designed a multi-epitope tuberculosis vaccine candidate from conserved immunoreactive peptides, fused to a non-toxic enterotoxin fragment to target mucosal immunity.
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