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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.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Donors promise $4 billion to global vaccines body

(AP) -- Donors promised to give a global vaccines body more than $4 billion to help it protect millions of children from diseases like measles, pneumonia and yellow fever.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Vaccine effort targets 41 million in Americas

The Pan-American Health Organization said Friday it is aiming to vaccinate 41 million people in 45 Western Hemisphere nations against a variety of diseases in its ninth annual vaccination week.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Virus-mimicking nanoparticles can stimulate long lasting immunity

Emory postdoctoral fellow Sudhir Pai Kasturi, PhD, created tiny particles studded with molecules thatturn on Toll‑like receptors. He worked with colleague Niren Murthy, PhD, associate professor in the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can breastfeeding transmit yellow fever after maternal vaccination?

A five-week old infant most likely contracted a vaccine strain of yellow fever virus through breastfeeding, according to a case report published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify antivirus system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses have led scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to the discovery of a security system in host cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers modify yellow fever vaccine to fight malaria

(PhysOrg.com) -- A genetically modified vaccine originally used to eradicate yellow fever could be the key to stopping a mosquito-borne scourge that afflicts much of the developing world.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Response to vaccines could depend on your sex

Biological differences between the sexes could be a significant predictor of responses to vaccines, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined published data from numerous ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yellow fever strikes monkey populations in South America

A group of Argentine scientists, including health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in northeastern Argentina, a finding ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study provides a better understanding of how mosquitoes find a host

The potentially deadly yellow-fever-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal, Agricultural Research Servic ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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