As Zika fear rises, people are inevitably asking why we don’t have a vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne virus.
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Zika was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil?
They’re small, spindly insects but their threat never dwindles – the bites of mosquitoes threaten death and disease in many parts of the world.
There’s something about mosquitoes that means they don’t get sick from the infections they carry. So can we turn that function off, genetically?
Could this relatively unknown virus become a household name in the Americas in the year to come?
Solar is a vital piece of the energy puzzle for Africa, but there is an insect problem that comes with the light from solar.
We monitor mosquitoes to help predict and control virus outbreaks. And a new technique for collecting mosquito saliva from the field has made the process both more sensitive and inexpensive.
The immune system protects us from the constant onslaught of viruses, bacteria and other types of pathogens we encounter throughout life. But it can sometimes misbehave.
Could climate change cause mosquito-borne diseases to spread? While this an extremely important health question, the answer is far from simple.
The UK’s recent heatwave is perfect for mosquito breeding but something far more dangerous may be coming.
The federal government’s recent White Paper on developing northern Australia has disturbing echoes of the 1890s, a time when unbridled capitalism and indentured labour developed the North.
Investment in insect-borne disease field trials is being wasted by poor study design.
Annihilate the Aedes aegypti mosquito population and you’d stop dengue fever from infecting up to 100 million people worldwide annually. Here are some high-tech methods under development.
The east coast of Australia is currently experiencing one of its worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease in years.
Mosquitoes need blood to survive. And what better place to get a good meal than a slow, tasty human. Mosquitoes aren’t just annoying. Every year around 5,000 Australians get sick following a mosquito bite…
Many tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and dengue are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and other carriers known as vectors. These vector-borne diseases continue to have a major impact…
More than 8,000 people have died from Ebola in West Africa since February 2014 and it has spread beyond the three countries initially affected. So, it’s an epidemic, right? Or is it an outbreak? What about…
An Australian native mosquito has for the first time been detected in urban California, in the latest wave of mozzies hitching rides to new destinations. While it is unlikely to pose a significant health…
Football fever may not be the only thing spreading when hundreds of thousands of sports fans converge on Brazil for the FIFA World Cup this June and July. Mass events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth…
Dangerous Asian Tiger mosquitoes have established populations on the Torres Strait islands of Waiben and Ngurupia, according…
Principales colaboradores
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Professor of Parasitology and Epidemiology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Dean of Programs (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), University of South Australia
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Professor of Entomology and Disease Epidemiology, Penn State
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Lecturer (University of Tasmania), University of Tasmania
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Scientific Citizenship Initiative Advisor and Center for Bioethics Lecturer, Harvard University
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Group leader, University of Leeds
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PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Durham University
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Senior lecturer, Newcastle University
