Monthly Archives: March 2024
Dancing with mosquitoes: engaging children in the fight against malaria
Have you ever found yourself eyeing a mosquito as it buzzed around, seemingly fixated on making you its next meal? It’s an intricate dance of advances and retreats, with the female mosquito meticulously orchestrating its movements to achieve a precise landing. But mosquitoes aren’t the only ones performing: across the globe, communities are harnessing the power of dance to rally against malaria, engaging people in the collective effort to combat this deadly disease.
Looking for the “Bear” necessities of helminths
In a recent study in Spain, researchers looked at the helminths infecting the endangered Cantabrian brown bear population, to determine what influence seasonality and bear activity may have on helminth species prevalence, and to feed into decisions for critical conservation efforts to safeguard the bears.