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The irritating buzz that rings in your ear in the dead of the night comes from an insect barely traceable with your naked eye. Here are a few facts worth knowing about the mosquito.
Across the world scientists are trying to find a new drug that the malaria carrying parasite will struggle to develop a resistance to.
Several countries within southern Africa are on the brink of eliminating malaria. But there are several challenges ahead.
Without insects the food chain would diminish and we would have very little fruit and vegetables to eat.
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.
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.
Being bitten by mosquitoes may not be pleasant but they’re after your unique microbial fingerprint.
The east coast of Australia is currently experiencing one of its worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease in years.
The folk song goes: all God’s creatures got a place. But not the mosquito.
About one in five people infected with Ross River virus develop symptoms, which start two to 19 days after being bitten.
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…
In January, the New York Times highlighted how insecticide treated nets meant to protect people from mosquitoes and malaria are now being used to haul fish in Africa. Among those using these nets to catch…
There’s always one in a crowd, a sort of harbinger of the oncoming mosquito onslaught: a person mosquitoes seem to target more than others. What is it about these unlucky chosen few that makes them mosquito…
The smell of mozzie repellent is as much a part of summer as barbecues and the cricket. Despite supermarket and pharmacy shelves overflowing with insect repellents, there are actually only a few active…
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…
The term “vector-borne” refers to the way diseases are passed on from one person to another. Instead of through the air or directly by human contact, these pathogens need to hitch a ride for transmission…
Ross River virus infection is the most commonly reported mosquito-borne disease in Australia, with more than 4,000 cases of illness are reported every year. Activity has been recorded from every state…
Female mosquitos, which can transmit deadly diseases like malaria, are attracted to humans by the scent of exhaled carbon…
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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
