Mosquito bites may make you more than itchy. New research suggests the itchier the bite, the more likely a mosquito-borne virus may make you sick.
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Inflammation caused by mosquito bites helps viruses to infect the body.
Innovations targeted at mosquito control are good but should not draw focus away from the tried and tested public health measures to control mosquito-borne diseases.
More people in the U.S. and world will be exposed to the disease-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti, not just because of warmer temperatures but global population changes as well.
A war is raging in your backyard between the “good” and “bad” mosquitoes.
Look beyond transgenic techniques that add new genes to a species. People have used selective breeding techniques to change plants and animals for millennia – why not try them on mosquitoes?
How does an institution like the World Bank come to put a price tag on a virus like Zika or any other health calamity?
Aedes aegypti is adapted to live in close proximity with humans, and this close association likely contributes to the severity of the Zika outbreak.
Satellite imaging can locate mosquito-friendly environments, allowing us to predict the advance of diseases they carry.
Despite all the hype around Zika, crucial questions remain unanswered. How great is the risk that infection during pregnancy would result in a baby with microcephaly? And what can be done to prevent this?
Insecticides and mosquito nets only get you so far. Synthetic biologists are ready to take the battle against mosquito-borne disease to the level of DNA – which might spell the insects’ ultimate doom.
They spread disease and misery and account for millions of deaths every year. There’s not a lot to be said for mosquitoes.
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?
Bees, wasps and ants – a group known as Hymenoptera – can claim the title of deadliest insects. How did they evolve to be so painful?
Could this relatively unknown virus become a household name in the Americas in the year to come?
A good summer picnic, bushwalk or barbecue with friends and family can all be ruined by those annoying flies that never leave you alone. So what are they after?
The ethics of genetically modified mosquitoes and the gene-drive technology that seeks to spread them.
New genetic technology could change the DNA of entire species to prevent them from spreading diseases.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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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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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
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Professorial Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Glasgow
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Public Health Scientist, MidMichigan Health, University of Michigan
