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...
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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...