Infection Control Today - Mosquito-Borne Illness

Common Bacterium Stops Mosquitoes from Transmitting Dengue Virus

Strains of a bacterium commonly found in fruit flies can prevent the Aedes aegypti mosquito from transmitting the virus that causes dengue fever, researchers have found. Their discovery could lead to a more effective way to control dengue worldwide. North Carolina State ...More

August 24, 2011

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New Experimental Vaccine Against Chikungunya Virus is Developed

Researchers have developed a new candidate vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that produces an intensely painful and often chronic arthritic disease that has stricken millions of people in India, Southeast Asia and Africa. A single dose ...More

August 12, 2011

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Software Predicted Virus Risk in California WNV Epidemic

A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6 percent of human cases of the disease would arise and defined high-risk areas where the risk of infection turned ...More

August 11, 2011

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Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America from mosquito-borne illnesses. ...More

July 8, 2011

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Internet Search Queries Can Help Monitor Epidemics, Could Quicken Public Health Response

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search ...More

May 31, 2011

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Research Could Lead to Mosquitoes Being Susceptible to Diseases They Transmit

Mosquitoes are becoming more resistant to current pesticides. That's troubling to Kansas State University biologist Kristin Michel, as it means malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases will continue spreading. A recent grant from the National Institutes of Health may ...More

May 17, 2011

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Bacterium Found to Kill Malaria in Mosquitoes

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a bacterium in field-caught mosquitoes that, when present, stops the development of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria in humans. According to the study, the Enterobacter ...More

May 13, 2011

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Study Examines Immunity in Emerging Species of a Major Mosquito Carrier of Malaria

In notable back-to-back papers appearing in the journal Science in October, teams of researchers, one led by Nora Besansky, a professor of biological sciences and a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame, provided evidence that ...More

December 20, 2010

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Discovery by Entomologists 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 require vertebrate blood to produce eggs. The blood feeding and the ...More

December 3, 2010

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Healthcare Volunteers and Disasters: First, Be Prepared

A surge in volunteers following a major disaster can overwhelm a response system, and without overall coordination, can actually make a situation worse instead of better. The outpouring of medical volunteers who responded to the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti in ...More

February 24, 2010

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