News tagged with fever mosquitoes
Climate right for Asian mosquito to spread in N. Europe
The climate in northwestern Europe and the Balkans is becoming suitable for the Asian tiger mosquito, a disease-spreading invasive species, scientists said on Wednesday.
Apr 25, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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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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Making blood-sucking deadly for mosquitoes
Inhibiting a molecular process cells use to direct proteins to their proper destinations causes more than 90 percent of affected mosquitoes to die within 48 hours of blood feeding, a UA team of biochemists ...
Jul 18, 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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Study shows how mosquitoes handle the heat of a hot blood meal
Mosquitoes make proteins to help them handle the stressful spike in body temperature that's prompted by their hot blood meals, a new study has found.
Apr 25, 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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Discovery could shrink dengue-spreading mosquito population
Each year, dengue fever infects as many as 100 million people while yellow fever is responsible for about 30,000 deaths worldwide. Both diseases are spread by infected female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which ...
Dec 02, 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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UF experts urge wariness of mosquito-borne diseases this summer
For Floridians hoping that the record-breaking cold of this past winter might have stemmed the number of pesky mosquitoes, University of Florida entomologists have this message: the mosquitoes are out in full ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 01, 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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