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Zika Virus

Photo: Robert Davey poses for a portrait in his BU lab

NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

May 27, 2025

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Infectious Diseases

BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with NIH Grant

October 29, 2024

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Photo of Dr. Nancy Sullivan of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discussing Ebola research with President Barack Obama as NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell look on.

NEIDL Director

Nancy J. Sullivan, Ebola Vaccine and Treatment Pioneer, Named New NEIDL Director

September 16, 2022

Closeup photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood off caucasian skin. A white spotted insect sits atop skin and bites.

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes Have a Bizarre Sense of Smell, Study Finds

August 18, 2022

Photo of a blue-gloved hand holding up a small glass container filled with three tiny mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes and Disease

Video: Inside the Insectary: How BU Scientists Study Diseases from Mosquitoes—without Getting Bitten

April 4, 2022

Mosquito-borne illness

Here’s Everything We Know about the Lethal Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

September 3, 2019

Davidson Hamer, professor at Boston University Center for Global Health & Development

Global Health

Understanding Zika’s Spread

February 15, 2017

Female Aedes aegypti mosquito on skin

Zika Virus

Zika Strikes Miami

August 9, 2016

Close-up photo of the prototype zika virus diagnostic test, reader and paper tests

Zika Virus

New Tool to Diagnose Zika

June 13, 2016

Researcher at Boston University NEIDL facility holds a vial containing a sample of the Zika virus

Zika Virus

Medical Campus Experts Gather to Confer about Zika

March 25, 2016

Aedes aegypti mosquito

Infectious Diseases

The Next Pandemic

February 2, 2016

The Next Pandemic