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A new study shows that the pesticide pyriproxyfen – widely used in Brazil during the Zika outbreak of 2015 – could disrupt thyroid hormones and thus affect brain development in children.
Plus, why Brazilian women who lived through Zika are avoiding getting pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to episode 18 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Officials in Brazil recently asked women to avoid pregnancy, citing heightened risk to them and newborns. But births were already dropping; a new study attributes it to the trauma of Zika.
Gene drive guarantees that a trait will be passed to the next generation. But should society use this tool to control insect populations?
Release of GM mosquitoes in Florida is imminent. But a multidisciplinary team of scientists believe that more studies are needed first. They encourage a publicly accessible registry for GM organisms.
Covid-19, like other major epidemics, is not unrelated to the biodiversity and climate crisis we are experiencing.
The tremendous costs of COVID-19 show why the world needs to do a better job preventing epidemics from occurring – or at least mitigate the impact.
The declaration does not mean the risk to Canadians has changed, but it does mean Canada must step up to help those countries with weaker heath-care systems.
Nuisance-biting and mosquito-borne disease are ongoing concerns for health authorities. But an effective citizen science program is now showing how all of us can help beat the bite of mozzies.
There’s a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
Timing is everything when it comes to making a decision about declaring a disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
New survey of insect-borne disease in Venezuela.
In January, measles returned to the Pacific Northwest, while Ebola resurged in the Congo. It would take a lot more research for scientists to be able to stop threats like these in their tracks.
Researchers are exploring genetic forms of population control called gene drives that spread traits faster that happens naturally. The goal is to curb mosquito-borne diseases like malaria.
Japanese encephalitis virus is rare and doesn’t usually cause symptoms. But in a small proportion of cases it can result in long-term neurological impairment and death.
Is our changing climate making regions of the US more suitable for ticks and mosquitoes that spread diseases? Or is the climate changing human physiology making us more vulnerable?
Scientists need to continue working across disciplines to find ways to disrupt disease transmission in the context of climate change.
For several billion people mosquitoes are more than a nuisance – they transmit deadly diseases. Now genetic modification may prove the most effective defense against the mosquito, preventing disease.
Mosquitoes are picky about who they bite but it’s not actually “us” that they’re smelling when they choose their next meal…
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Cameron Webb is a Friend of The Conversation.Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Biology, University of South Australia
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Project Officer; Centre for Advanced Training Systems, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (U.Tasmania), University of Tasmania
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Epidemiologist, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Visiting Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University, USA, and Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
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Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
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Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney
