Background: The climate variables that directly influence vector-borne diseases' ecosystems
are mainly temperature and rainfall. This is not only because the vectors bionomics are …

Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain–Barré syndrome
associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that …

The Zika virus outbreak has captivated the attention of the global audience and information
has spread rapidly and wildly through the internet and other media channels. This virus was …

Since the beginning of this century, humanity has been facing a new emerging, or re-
emerging, virus threat almost every year: West Nile, Influenza A, avian flu, dengue …

In this review, we mainly focus on zoonotic encephalitides caused by arthropod-borne
viruses (arboviruses) of the families Flaviviridae (genus Flavivirus) and Togaviridae (genus …

For the first time outside sub-Saharan Africa, a lineage 2 West Nile virus (WNV) emerged in
Hungary in 2004. It caused sporadic cases of encephalitis in goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) …

Arboviruses are transmitted in nature exclusively or to a major extend by arthropods. They
belong to the most important viruses invading new areas in the world and their occurrence is …

In Europe, many flaviviruses are endemic (West Nile, Usutu, tick-borne encephalitis viruses)
or occasionally imported (dengue, yellow fever viruses). Due to the temporal and …

Flaviviruses are known to cause a variety of diseases in humans in different parts of the
world. There are very limited numbers of antivirals to combat flavivirus infection, and …

We report the first worldwide case of Usutu virus (USUV) neuroinvasive infection in a patient
with diffuse large B cell lymphoma who presented with fever and neurological symptoms …