International travel, trade, climate change, migration and conflict can all facilitate the spread of infectious diseases and their vectors from their… Read more »
Krisztian Magori reviews a recent study demonstrating that flaviviruses make mice (and people) produce more of the volatile acetophenone, which is… Read more »
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 »
Krisztian Magori reviews two recent papers on the differential impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change, reducing… Read more »
The global trade in used tyres is a major factor responsible for introductions of Aedes invasive mosquitoes. Clare Strode tells us… Read more »
A new study shows that rising temperatures can reduce Wolbachia infection in mosquitoes, loosening its control on their… Read more »
Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »
In this blog Dr Richard Samuels articulates and contextualizes the research put forward in a recent article published in Parasites… Read more »
A recent study in Guangzhou, China provides a comprehensive overview of Aedes albopictus and insecticide resistance
The S139N mutation in Zika M-protein has been found to increase severity of neurolovirulence, including microcephaly.
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