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Dengue Makes Home in Florida
On August 15, 2013, the Florida Department of Health in Martin County reported 3 cases of locally acquired dengue fever in the Rio and Jensen Beach area...
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Football fervour dampened by dengue fever?
The flag of Brazil Over a million people from around the world, including 10,000 England supporters from the U.K, are expected to flock to Brazil this summer for the FIFA World Cup 2014. Excitement...
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Dengue Fever: a tropical disease coming to Europe. Well-founded concern and...
Guest Post by Maha Bouzid at the University of East Anglia Dengue is a viral disease endemic in tropical and subtropical regions, transmitted by the bite of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes...
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The enemy within: mosquitoes killing their own
Given that mosquitoes are the vectors of some of the world’s most deadly parasites, it should be unsurprising that they are also the targets of disease control efforts. And in the case of some...
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Buzzkill: suppressing mosquito populations by feeding them
It is the female mosquito that spreads parasitic diseases such as malaria and dengue, and the male mosquito is relatively harmless to us. However, the male mosquito can be exploited to be very deadly –...
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Big buzz about sterile males in the Florida Keys
Dengue fever. Chikungunya. Strange names in a strange place, they may seem like distant concerns in most parts of the United States. However, the Florida Department of Health reported 24 cases of...
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Special Issue of “Climate change and vector-borne diseases of humans”
The effect of climate change on the distribution and intensity of vector-borne diseases has been a controversial topic for the last 20 years. The controversy started when early studies, working on...
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Hitching a ride: riverboats play crucial role in spread of diseases
Rivers have formed the crux of civilizations throughout history, providing a lifeline and a means of communication and trade. Rivers and waterways are the still the foci of human life all over the...
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Peter Hotez answers our questions regarding the worm index and ‘Blue Marble...
Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine; the Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics; Director of the Sabin Vaccine...
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Genetic control methods are ready to be used to control Zika outbreak in...
Dengue, chikungunya, and now Zika virus. All potentially lethal and economically costly reemerging and emerging diseases caused by pathogens transmitted by Aedes aegypti, one of the most widespread and...
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Interview with Luke Alphey, biotechnology expert at Pirbright Institute
In your experience, how can the tools of biotechnology be used to combat pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, such as the Zika virus? Well that is a very broad question, and of course there are a huge...
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Zika virus, a clear, present and enduring danger in the Gulf Coast of the US
On Friday, August 19, 2016, following the detection of local transmission of Zika virus on Miami Beach, the US CDC has suggested that pregnant women and their partners, if possible, should postpone any...
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Update on Zika virus, microcephaly and control efforts
I assume that most readers of Bugbitten are very familiar with Zika virus itself as well as the ongoing outbreak in the Americas and Southeast Asia, which we covered in several posts ourselves (as well...
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Mosquito bites – more than just annoying
Every year mosquito-transmitted viruses such as Dengue, Chikungunya and, most recently, Zika cause several hundred million infections. The unpredictable nature of these outbreaks, combined with the...
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Probing the zika, dengue and yellow fever culprit: Aedes albopictus in...
The infamous 2014 dengue-outbreak in Guangzhou, southern China reported over 45,000 cases. Although rarely as severe, outbreaks in this area are common due to the prevalence of the mosquito-vector...
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The crystal ball: predicting the next outbreak
Hollywood films and TV programs have somewhat glamorized and perhaps even trivialized the impact of disease outbreaks, often implying a simple serum put together in the space of the film could cure all...
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Wolbachia is ready for prime time!
Despite advances with the development of a vaccine, dengue continues to be a major mosquito-borne viral infection in many parts of the world, impacting 100 million people per year. A new paper popped...
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Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases
Could the solution to bugs be more bugs? To a farmer battling invasive insect pests, the so-called Sterile Insect Technique can be a godsend. Called “the greatest entomological achievement of the 20th...
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Too Hot to Handle: Loss of cytoplasmic incompatibility may hinder...
Wolbachia bacteria are a genus of symbiotes that infect a wide range of insects. Transmitted through the female line, they are notable for their complicated effects on the reproductive capabilities of...
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Honey baits for arbovirus surveillance
Collecting mosquito saliva on FTA cards The idea to take advantage of the fact that infectious mosquitoes spit out viruses in their saliva not only during blood- but also during sugar-feeding is not...
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