Teaching disease ecology – in the time of COVID-19
In this year's update to his annual post, Krisztian Magori reflects on his experience teaching his disease ecology class at EWU under a stay-at-home… Read more »
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Electrocuting mosquitoes: a new hope for monitoring dengue vectors?
The Mosquito Electrocuting Trap (MET) for collection of mosquito populations that transmit dengue virus was recently tested for the first time.… Read more »
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Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases
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A new era in mosquito-borne disease surveillance
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Bringing the lab into the field
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The sex lives of schistosomes; complexed mixing of genomes
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Trapping mosquitoes with cattle odor
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One Health and the community – the AfyaData tool
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The crystal ball: predicting the next outbreak
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