Looping: How poverty and vector-borne diseases fuel each other
Tom Pigram
Poverty, inequality, and vector-borne disease feed into one another. How do we break the loop?
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Vector control – is it all in the attitude?
Srimathy Sriskantharajah
International travel, trade, climate change, migration and conflict can all facilitate the spread of infectious diseases and their vectors from their… Read more »
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Flaviviruses make you smell like a perfume to attract blood-seeking Aedes mosquitoes, and you might be able to take a cheap, safe drug to stop them
Krisztian Magori reviews a recent study demonstrating that flaviviruses make mice (and people) produce more of the volatile… Read more »
Are we ready for (re)emerging arboviral diseases?
A few years ago, this question would have been merely academic for most of the world, but now that we have all experienced the… Read more »
One size does not fit all: different vector-borne diseases impacted differently by climate change
Krisztian Magori reviews two recent papers on the differential impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change, reducing… Read more »
Sticking it to invasive Aedes mosquitoes
The global trade in used tyres is a major factor responsible for introductions of Aedes invasive mosquitoes. Clare Strode tells us… Read more »
Too Hot to Handle: Loss of cytoplasmic incompatibility may hinder Wolbachia-centred disease control
A new study shows that rising temperatures can reduce Wolbachia infection in mosquitoes, loosening its control on their… Read more »
Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases
Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »
How can we use fungi to control mosquitoes?
In this blog Dr Richard Samuels articulates and contextualizes the research put forward in a recent article published in Parasites… Read more »
Probing the zika, dengue and yellow fever culprit: Aedes albopictus in Guangzhou, China
A recent study in Guangzhou, China provides a comprehensive overview of Aedes albopictus and insecticide resistance
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