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A person living in New York tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in the first reported transmission within the US in six years, officials said on Tuesday. The chikungunya virus is ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness within the ...

A resident of New York has contracted the state's first known case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease acquired locally, officials said. The person infected in Long Island likely got the virus ...

Three cases of a severe and rare virus strain were detected in Los Angeles County this week, and local officials are concerned it could be spreading. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department ...

Moderna is halting development of an mRNA vaccine for congenital cytomegalovirus after its candidate failed to protect women from the virus in a large phase 3 trial, the biotech announced in a ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...

FILE - This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito. (James Gathany/CDC via AP, File) (James Gathany) ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --New York health officials have confirmed the first case of locally acquired chikungunya virus in the state and the first in the country in more than five years. Laboratory testing ...

Panel A shows a bar chart of the quarterly human case counts since 2005. Panel B details outbreak clusters according to province from February 2023 through August 2024. Silhouettes represent the age, ...