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According to UN health authorities, there were 51,217 total chikungunya cases reported in 2025, including nearly 2,000 confirmed cases.

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Ross River virus (RRV) is a medically significant arbovirus endemic to Australia where it causes an average of 5000 reported human cases per year. Due to concern for possible transmission outside of its endemic range, we examined the vector competence and vectorial capacity of RRV by Aedes albopictus (Skuse 1894) to contribute to risk assessments for outbreaks in the United States. We tested Ae. albopictus mosquitoes exposed to RRV at three temperatures and five time points post-infection for infection and dissemination. We also collected saliva from exposed individuals incubated at the same three temperatures to determine the presence of viral RNA. Additionally, we assessed the impact of viral infection on life expectancy as a function of temperature. Rates of infection were unaffected by time and temperature and 89.3% of individuals were infected. 85-100% of infected individuals displayed dissemination by day 7 at all temperatures. The extrinsic incubation period as determined by the saliva collection was approximately 6 days and 78.6-100% of individuals tested expressed salivary viral RNA at some point in the experiment which is comparable to the rates of overall infection. The vectorial capacity of RRV with Ae. albopictus as a vector ranged from 10.23-23.37 indicating that these mosquitoes are competent potential vectors for RRV. Due to prior outbreaks RRV has caused outside of its endemic range, these findings warrant further investigation in the transmission potential of RRV in the United States.

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In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Mamady Kone and colleagues report the immunogenicity and efficacy of the ProC6C-AlOH/Matrix-M malaria vaccine evaluated in a phase 2 randomised controlled trial in 3...

This is the first clinical trial of an anti-PfCSP subunit vaccine that has shown greater than 50% vaccine efficacy against CHMI at 12 weeks after the last vaccine dose, associated with a novel, strong...

CONCLUSIONS: The present study offers the first map of the occurrence of the major Ae. albopictus kdr alleles across Europe and highlights a differential distribution of the two alleles most strongly associated with pyrethroid resistance, 1016G and 1534C. Our findings also point to the need for enhancing resistance monitoring in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the two mutations are shown to exist in geographically close areas, with the risk of emergence of highly resistant double...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is needed.