There are many ways to prevent mosquito-borne diseases – insecticides to kill mosquitoes, vaccines to prevent infection and healthy doses of insect repellent before heading off for fishing trips. But while…
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Dengue is caused by four different serotypes (strains) of the dengue virus that can cause mild to severe illness in people, who are infected via mosquito bites. Dengue has been spreading through most urbanised…
Detecting dengue virus-carrying mosquitoes will become easier following the development of a portable detection tool. The…
A dengue fever-causing virus turns on genes in mosquitoes which not only increases their hunger, but makes them more adept…
Mosquito-borne diseases remain one of the greatest global threats to human health. Genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes hold great potential to reduce the burden of disease but as research moves from the…
Researchers have developed a mosquito vaccine to control the spread of deadly diseases by the insects. Scientists have discovered…
By infecting mosquitoes with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls, researchers have stopped the…
World-first field trials of a new technique to stop mosquitoes passing the dangerous and painful dengue virus onto humans have been declared a success, with plans afoot to roll out the method in dengue-plagued…
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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
