News tagged with dengue transmission

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.

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Climate variability and dengue incidence

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine demonstrates associations between local rainfall and temperature and cases of dengue fever, which affects an estimated fifty million people per year worldwide. But the study ...

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Local climate influences dengue transmission

Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that dengue transmission in Puerto Rico is dependent upon local climate and short-term ...

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Researchers discover novel anti-viral immune pathway in the mosquito

(Medical Xpress) -- As mosquito-borne viral diseases like West Nile fever, dengue fever, and chikungunya fever spread rapidly around the globe, scientists at Virginia Tech are working to understand the mosquito's ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

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

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Genetically modified fungus could fight malaria

In a cramped London laboratory filled with test tubes, bacteria and mosquitoes, scientists are trying to engineer a new weapon in the battle against malaria: a mutant fungus.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

America's most distressed areas threatened by emerging infections of poverty

Neglected infections of poverty are the latest threat plaguing the poorest people living in the Gulf Coast states and in Washington, D.C., according to Dr. Peter Hotez, Distinguished Research Professor and Chair of the Department ...

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created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Transgenic fungi can combat malaria, other bug-borne diseases: study

New findings by a University of Maryland-led team of scientists indicate that a genetically engineered fungus carrying genes for a human anti-malarial antibody or a scorpion anti-malarial toxin could be a highly effective, ...

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created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neutron scattering study yields new insights into virus life cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Without a host, a virus is a dormant package of proteins, genetic material and occasional lipids. Once inside a living cell, however, a virus can latch onto cell parts and spring into action ...

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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 ...

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created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers unveil new approach to blocking malaria transmission

University of Illinois at Chicago researcher Dr. John Quigley will describe a promising new approach to blocking malaria transmission during the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

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Researchers sequence genome of mosquito that spreads West Nile virus

Last year, 720 people in the United States became infected with West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that is spread through the bite of a mosquito - the Culex mosquito - that has first fed on inf ...

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created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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