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Researchers examine role of climate change in disease spread
Feb 05, 2009 |
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GALVESTON, Texas — Ever since scientists first proposed that our planet might be experiencing widespread climate change, concerns have been raised about its implications for the spread of arboviruses - viruses carried by ...
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Researchers discover how mosquitoes avoid succumbing to viruses they transmit
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Mosquitoes are like Typhoid Mary. They can spread viruses which cause West Nile fever, dengue fever, or yellow fever without themselves getting sick. Scientists long thought that the mosquito didn't care whether it had a ...
Engineers create 3-D model to help biologists combat blue tongue virus
Jun 23, 2008 |
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A large 3D model of the Blue Tongue virus has been created by WMG engineering researchers at the University of Warwick that will help biologists devise new ways to combat the virus and protect millions of ...
Researchers create first chikungunya animal model
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Feb 19, 2008 |
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Researchers have developed the first animal model of the infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an emerging arbovirus associated with large-scale epidemics that hit the Indian Ocean (especially the French Island of ...
A novel finding in how chikungunya virus has spread to new vectors and locations
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have discovered how a key protein switch allows Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) to spread to new vectors. The study, published December 7 in PLoS Pathogens, explains how the ...
Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced
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May 17, 2007 |
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Developing new strategies to prevent and control yellow fever and dengue fever has become more possible with the completion of the first draft of the genome sequence of Aedes aegypti mosquito by scientists led by Vishvanath ...
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