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Tick-borne Powassan virus is being transmitted in concentrated clusters in New England, study says
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Tick-borne Powassan virus is being transmitted in concentrated clusters in New England, study says

by Jenny Blair, Yale School of Public Health Reconstruction of the dispersal history of Powassan virus lineage 2 viruses inferred by a spatially-explicit phylogeographic analysis. The highly focal distribution of the virus, with rare long-distance dispersal events, is particularly clear in Connecticut (see zoomed inset). Besides a single dispersal event between locations 1 (Westport) and 2...

Wistar creates a new synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus
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Wistar creates a new synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus

by  The Wistar Institute Powassan virus is a tick-borne, emerging infectious disease. Scientists at The Wistar Institute have designed and tested the first-of-its-kind synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus (POWV), targeting portions of the virus envelope protein. A rapidly reemerging tick-borne disease, POWV has been reported to be fatal in 10% of infected people with detrimental...