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flavivirus
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noun
- a type of arbovirus that causes a wide range of diseases in humans, including yellow fever, dengue, and West Nile fever. It is spread by ticks or mosquitoes
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“His lab has really populated the flavivirus field,†Dr. Cameron said, referring to the virus family that includes hepatitis C virus.
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Antibodies help to protect individuals against flavivirus infections.
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Zika is a flavivirus, a family that includes dengue and Japanese encephalitis, which are also transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Zika, a member of the flavivirus family, has circulated in Africa and Asia for decades but had never been seen in the Americas before it surfaced in Brazil in 2015.
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Pardo returned to the U.S., when she was 16 weeks pregnant, and tested positive for dengue, which, like Zika, is a flavivirus.
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