Listening to forest soundscapes for zoonotic disease surveillance
A recent review looks at how bioacoustics could be a useful approach for the surveillance of zoonotic diseases, especially at the… Read more »
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Sharing innovative research in Uganda
The Uganda Schistosomiasis Multidisciplinary Research Centre (U-SMRC) hosted the first Uganda Schistosomiasis Symposium in Entebbe, Uganda, as well as… Read more »
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A tsetse fly aphrodisiac is identified
New research sheds more light on the odors involved in tsetse fly mating behaviour.
The demise of the Guinea worm
Following previous setbacks, an announcement in January this year suggests Guinea worm disease may finally be on its way to… Read more »
City lights might make Culex mosquitoes weaker over the summer but extend West Nile virus transmission risk in the fall
This week, Krisztian Magori discusses - with help from ChatGPT and DALL-E - recent studies on the impact of Artificial Light at… Read more »
The evolutionary arms race: mass drug use and malaria parasites
The World Malaria Report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022, reported that malaria still causes over… Read more »
Deforestation could mean less bats and more viruses
Bats have important roles in the ecosystems they inhabit. Sometimes, they also carry viruses. One study in the Atlantic Forest… Read more »
BugBitten & Bizarre – some of the surprising facts we learned in 2022
Dear Readers, thank you for joining BugBitten as we covered some of the events and advances in our understanding of parasites and… Read more »
Protecting our feline friends: Parasitic helminths of the European wildcat and spillover to domesticated cats in Germany
Surveillance and monitoring of the prevalence and distribution of zoonotic pathogens is crucial in improving our awareness of… Read more »
Good news in the fight against vector-borne diseases
Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of… Read more »
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