Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is a rare but severe viral disease caused by eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), which is part of the Alphavirus genus and the Togaviridae family.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Thinking about technological advancement, it is clear that the pace at which innovations are being developed is rapidly increasing. There was a time when doctors didn't have a cure for the ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a list of pathogens that could possibly lead to the next pandemic. The updated list of 30 pathogens is comprehensive that are "priority" in their ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects blood sugar levels. While the exact cause is unknown, environmental factors, such as infections, likely play a role. Diabetes is ...

In the summer and fall months in Canada, it is important to consider an arthropod-borne etiology in patients presenting with encephalitis given an expanding geographic distribution of tick populations ...

Emerging infectious diseases in humans are of great concern to public health and a majority (approx.75%) of them are zoonotic in nature. Up to one third of these emerging diseases are caused by vector ...

The recent emergence and re-emergence of viral infections transmitted by vectors—Zika, chikungunya, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, yellow fever and others—is a cause for international ...

Arboviruses are a group of viruses that are transmitted to susceptible vertebrates through the bite of blood-sucking arthropods. The vectors include mosquitoes, ticks, culicoides, midges, sandy flies, ...