Monthly Archives: December 2022

Good news in the fight against vector-borne diseases

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Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce Aedes aegypti populations, with the hope to be able to order his own batch of such mosquitoes in the near future!

Vector control – is it all in the attitude?

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International travel, trade, climate change, migration and conflict can all facilitate the spread of infectious diseases and their vectors from their ‘usual’ endemic regions to non-endemic regions. Lack of knowledge and inexperience of control measures in non-endemic countries can lead to outbreaks of diseases. Pénélope Duval and her colleagues surveyed the knowledge and practices of community gardeners in urban France to the invasive Asian Tiger mosquito – the vector of the viruses that cause dengue, Zika and other diseases.