News tagged with aedes aegypti
Climate variability and dengue incidence
Nov 16, 2009 |
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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 ...
Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in ...
Getting mosquitoes to kill their own
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's about mosquitoes killing mosquitoes.
Mosquito parasite may help fight dengue fever
May 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Hoarding rainwater could 'dramatically' expand range of dengue-fever mosquito
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Ecologists have developed a new model to predict the impact of climate change on the dengue fever-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti in Australia - information that could help limit its spread.
