What’s up with Zika?
Below, Krisztian Magori provides an update on the situation with Zika virus, the knowledge that we accumulated on it in the last two years, and his opinion on… Read more »
Krisztian is the Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Biology at Eastern Washington University. He is a disease ecologist, interested in the complex relationships between hosts, vectors, pathogens, and their biotic and abiotic environment. You can also follow his writing on https://kmagori.weebly.com.
Latest posts by Krisztian Magori (see all)
- Scary Mosquitoes Creeping North with Climate Change - 11th October 2024
- Having fun, connecting with others and learning new things at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in the City of Angels - 23rd August 2024
- My gratitude for and hope in the next generation of biologists - 28th June 2024
The Revenge of the Aedes
With almost 1400 cases and 250 deaths, Brazil is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of yellow fever since the 1940s. Here, we look at the potential… Read more »
The future of emerging infectious diseases in the Trump era
Today marks the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States. At the dawn of this new era, we consider the future for emerging and… Read more »
Update on Zika virus, microcephaly and control efforts
Yesterday, November 3, 2016, was the 1st official One Health Day, devoted to bring global attention to the need to consider the health of people, pets, animals,… Read more »
Bed bugs become a new target of the wonder drug ivermectin
Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug, for which discovery the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded, is presently under development to become an… Read more »
Valley Fever on the go, possibly helped by small cute mammals
Coccidioidomycosis (aka "cocci", or Valley Fever) is a fungal infection caused by two species of Coccidioides fungi, infecting thousands of people in the… Read more »
Zika virus, a clear, present and enduring danger in the Gulf Coast of the US
On Friday, August 19, 2016, following the detection of local transmission of Zika virus on Miami Beach, the US CDC has suggested that pregnant women and their… Read more »
The most dangerous enemies of humanity
Arthropod-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and the Zika virus, seem to be emerging and re-emerging at an alarming rate in the last few years. In this post,… Read more »
Teaching disease ecology to expose the medical professionals of the future to One Health
Krisztian Magori explains how he used a disease ecology capstone class to expose the medical professionals of the future to the concepts and topics of disease… Read more »
Interview with Luke Alphey, biotechnology expert at Pirbright Institute
Luke Alphey, Group Leader of Vector-borne Viral Diseases at the Pirbright Institute in the UK, former Research Director of Oxitec Ltd., answers our questions on… Read more »