When ticks fly: Can static attract the Lyme disease carriers without touching?
Even if you find ticks repulsive, your skin’s electrical charge may find them positively attractive. Previously assumed to require direct contact to… Read more »
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A Tale of Two Conferences
Krisztian Magori reports on two very different conferences he attended over the summer, and what he learned at them, both about pathogens and vectors,… Read more »
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Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the… Read more »
Parasitizing deep-sea hydrothermal vents
What do deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems tell us about parasite richness, diversity and the advantage of certain life history… Read more »
New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »
Are giardiasis-related pathologies caused only by certain Giardia duodenalis assemblages: Molecular epidemiology and assemblage typing of giardiasis infections along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »
The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and human African sleeping sickness
The identification and discovery of the mode of action of a class of drugs, the cyanotriazoles, that poison trypanosomatids has… Read more »
Teaching disease ecology in-person is fun again (but not without challenges)!
Krisztian Magori reports on the joys and challenges of teaching his Senior Capstone class in Disease Ecology in-person again for… Read more »
Could making buffets for mosquitoes help us learn about their preferences for human hosts?
Mosquitoes use scent cues to locate humans to feed upon, but do some humans smell more appealing than others, and if so, why?
Is a new threat being blustered to Africa?
A mosquito vector of malaria normally found in Asia is moving into African cities. How did it travel there and is this a cause for… Read more »
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