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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 ...
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Smaller mosquitoes are more likey to be infected with viruses causing human diseases
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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An entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the new UI Institute for Natural Resource Sustainability, says smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses that cause diseases in humans. ...
Fungus enhances susceptibility of resistant malaria mosquito to pesticides
Sep 24, 2009 |
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In areas where malaria mosquitoes have become resistant to chemical pesticides, mosquito-killing fungi can be an effective tool. Fungal spores can effectively infect and kill malaria mosquitoes, even those that are resistant ...
Entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell
May 07, 2009 |
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Sick people often lose their sense of smell and their appetite. If this happened to mosquitoes, they would not be able to feed on humans and spread malaria. A team of Penn State entomologists is looking for an insect disease ...
'Airport malaria' -- cause for concern in the US
Nov 11, 2008 |
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In a global world, significant factors affect the spread of infectious diseases, including international trade, air travel and globalized food production. "Airport malaria" is a term coined by researchers to explain the more ...
New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net'
Dec 24, 2009 |
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Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, ...
Evolution-proof insecticides may stall malaria forever (w/Video)
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Killing just the older mosquitoes would be a more sustainable way of controlling malaria, according to entomologists who add that the approach may lead to evolution-proof insecticides that never become obsolete.
Working to eradicate dengue fever
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project led by University of Notre Dame biologist Malcolm J. Fraser Jr. may soon lead to the eradication of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that annually infects more ...
Scientists Discover Which Waters Egg-Laying Mosquitoes Like Best
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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Scientists at Tulane and North Carolina State universities have identified the chemical cues in water that entice yellow fever mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The study is the first to isolate the compounds that the finicky ...
Wet or dry, Montana still threatened by West Nile
Jun 11, 2008 |
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West Nile virus is apparently here to stay despite Montana's cool, wet spring, says Montana State University entomologist Greg Johnson.
How mosquitoes could teach us a trick in the fight against malaria
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The means by which most deadly malaria parasites are detected and killed by the mosquitoes that carry them is revealed for the first time in research published today in Science Express. The di ...
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