UF’s Sadie Ryan to co-lead NSF-funded institute for emerging virus research
A UF medical geographer is co-leading a new institute funded by the National Science Foundation to study emerging viruses.
A UF medical geographer is co-leading a new institute funded by the National Science Foundation to study emerging viruses.
A UF team studying mosquito- and tick-borne diseases was awarded $10 million from the CDC for an additional five years of research. Many of the team members are affiliated with the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute.
UF researchers use molecular tools to detect dengue virus and West Nile virus in southeastern Florida and inform mosquito control in real time.
Two UF researchers are helping to determine if spreading a bacteria among mosquitoes can suppress the incidence of dengue infections in people.
University of Florida researchers identify first known instances of two different types of viruses in Haitian children. The work marks the first time that Melao virus has been found in humans and the first time that both Melao and Oropouche viruses have been found in Haiti.
Three EPI investigators are coauthors to published research on Venezuela’s public health crisis and how it is affecting bordering South American countries. Vaccine-preventable diseases and insect-borne diseases are increasing as mosquito-control measures subside and public health infrastructure crumbles.
A child in Haiti was identified with a serious mosquito-borne illness that had never been reported in the Caribbean nation, according to researchers at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI).
In malaria-ridden parts of Africa, mosquito netting protects people from being infected while they sleep; now, a University of Florida entomologist wants to improve the netting by coating it with insecticide toxic only to mosquitoes.