News tagged with dengue haemorrhagic fever

Mosquito parasite may help fight dengue fever

Dengue fever is a terrible viral disease blighting many of the world's tropical regions. Carried by mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti, 40% of the world's population is believed to be at risk from the infect ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Daily temperature fluctuations play major role in transmission of dengue, research finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Daily temperature fluctuations, not just high temperatures, play a significant role in the transmission of dengue, a deadly mosquito-borne disease that strikes millions of people in tropical ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net'

Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Getting mosquitoes to kill their own

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's about mosquitoes killing mosquitoes.

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created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists closing the zap on dengue fever

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mosquito-borne virus that each year harms up to 100 million people and kills more than 20,000 is a step closer to being controlled after a breakthrough by Queensland scientists.

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