2-year-olds showed an altered immune response to childhood vaccines in T-cell expression.
Cross-reactivity among orthoflaviviruses should be considered when testing vaccines against the diseases they cause, the researchers say.
Vector-borne illnesses have doubled over the past two decades, as the number of pathogens grows and affected areas expand.
Because Zika often does not require medical care, many reinfections may have gone unnoticed, the study authors say.
Dengue in the Americas is outpacing 2022 activity by 12%, and chikungunya is also on the rise.
Those exposed to the virus while in the womb but never diagnosed with Zika-related birth defects or congenital Zika syndrome may still display differences in cognitive development.
Three quarters of a group of nonhospitalized men and women newly diagnosed as having COVID-19 continued to have positive rapid antigen test (RAT) results—and over one-third still had viable virus on culture—6 days later, according to a study led by Brigham and Women's researchers.
Mortality rates among children born with congenital Zika syndrome up to 3 years of age were more than 11 times higher than those without Zika, researchers reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Over half of adults diagnosed as having a rheumatologic disease reported persistent COVID-19 symptoms at least a month after recovery from their infection, according to survey results presented late last week at the virtual American College of Rheumatology annual meeting.
A second Ebola case has been confirmed in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a city health official from the city of Beni told Reuters.