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New research by a team of University of Florida investigators, and others, provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The work,

A University of Florida research team is helping to build the case that coronaviruses move between animals and people at a more frequent rate than

Even before the 2015 Zika pandemic subsided, researchers recognized the links between a warming world and arboviruses shifting their ranges into new areas where human

Countries report deaths from COVID-19 in different ways, which has created challenges for researchers who seek to uncover the pandemic’s global mortality patterns. While it’s

our University of Florida researchers led a recent meta-analysis to uncover trends in household transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Their study published

War and disease have intertwined across history to the point that untangling the affects one has upon the other may appear incalculable. But UF Emerging

UF researcher Ira Longini works to understand infectious diseases and their transmission dynamics across the globe — and how to halt or slow them down.

The age-old idiom “finding a needle in a haystack” pales in comparison with finding a virus in the air. At least you can see a

On March 1, 2020, I was named dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, after serving a year as interim dean. I had no

It all started with caterpillars. UNC biologist Allen Hurlbert has long been fascinated with small forest songbirds, many of which peck and gobble caterpillars seasonally.