News tagged with dengue mosquito
How fruit flies can teach us about curing chronic pain and halting mosquito-borne diseases
Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Researchers field test genetically modified mosquitoes to combat dengue fever
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxitec, a British company spun off from Oxford University has announced the results of its field test of genetically altered mosquitoes to combat the infamous dengue fever. As they report ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Flight patterns reveal how mosquitoes find hosts to transmit deadly diseases
The carbon dioxide we exhale and the odors our skins emanate serve as crucial cues to female mosquitoes on the hunt for human hosts to bite and spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever.
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015: Sanofi
French drugs group Sanofi said Friday that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Scientists identify odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior
Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases.
Jun 01, 2011 |
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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
Apr 18, 2011 |
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US researchers hopeful for dengue vaccine
Promising advances have been made in the testing of possible vaccines to prevent the mosquito-borne dengue virus, which kills 25,000 people every year, researchers said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Study shows economic impact of dengue virus in Americas
Dengue illness, the most common mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, has expanded from its Southeast Asian origins and is resurgent in countries such as Argentina, Chile and the continental United States.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Malaysia delays landmark GM mosquito trial after protests
Malaysia has delayed a landmark field trial to release genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, an official said Tuesday, following protests from environmentalists.
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Trap tricks pregnant mosquitoes with enticingly lethal maternity ward
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tulane University researchers are using mosquitoes' motherly instincts against them to develop a novel trap to fight the spread of dengue fever. Researchers are deploying small devices with just the right ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Mosquito monitoring saves lives and money, analysis finds
Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis by Emory ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Dengue-resistant mosquitoes to be released next year
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, dengue fever infects up to 100 million people and kills more than 20,000 of them. In an effort to reduce these numbers, scientists have infected mosquitoes with bacteria that makes ...
Oct 10, 2010 |
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Dengue fever returns to Florida
The return of dengue fever to Florida for the first time since 1934 is "unusual but not unexpected," state health officials said Tuesday. They acknowledged they can only speculate why it's happening.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Report suggests nearly 5 percent exposed to dengue virus in Key West
An estimated 5 percent of the Key West, Fla., population - over 1,000 people - showed evidence of recent exposure to dengue virus in 2009, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Entomologists to develop special bacteria to combat spread of mosquito-borne diseases
Roughly half the world's population still lives in areas at risk of malaria transmission. Even in the United States, 1500 cases of malaria are reported annually on average.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 14, 2010 |
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