These diseases, ranging from dengue fever and malaria to West Nile virus and yellow fever, are the cause of millions of deaths worldwide, yet control methods have become a dilemma due to the development of resistance by mosquitoes and increased concern about health and environmental hazards.
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Within hours he was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, a virus nasty enough for him to be put onto a military transport aircraft for transfer to an isolation hospital in London.
Animal studies showed that squalamine controlled infections of yellow fever, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, and murine cytomegalovirus.
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The firm plans to use some of the smallpox proceeds to help develop its experimental vaccines for West Nile virus and dengue fever.
Later that night, Samantha had a slight fever and was shedding billions of virus particles.
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Victims of the rare virus suffer a high fever, headaches, diarrhoea, brain inflammation, nausea and internal bleeding.
Schmallenberg virus (SBV) causes fever, diarrhoea and loss of milk production in adult cattle, although the animals do recover.
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And now comes an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, the contagious and incurable fever that makes its victims bleed to death through their ears, nose, throat, everywhere.
They found 56, 681 MS cases and 14, 621 cases of glandular fever, which is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
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Scientists believe that Mohammed's cancer is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is better known for causing glandular fever.
Only 12 cases of Lassa fever have been diagnosed in North America and Europe since the virus was identified 30 years ago.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends someone sick with the virus remain out of class for 24 hours after fever has abated on its own.
Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.
At the same time, new outbreaks of dengue fever on the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border had US officials worried that the virus would slowly spread north.
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