Cellular Receptors Identified for Eastern Equine Encephalitis
A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School has identified a set of cellular receptors for at least ...
Tag: Mosquito-Borne
Sterilizing Male Mosquitoes with Gene Editing to Reduce Disease Spread
Rendering certain male mosquitoes infertile with CRISPR-Cas9 techniques could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for ...
Breakthrough Results for Dengue Antiviral: Janssen Compound Shows Promise Against All Serotypes
Named one of the top ten threats in 2019 by the World Health Organization, dengue is critically important to global health ...
Barriers to Eradicating Elephantiasis—A Debilitating Disease Spread By Mosquitoes
Lymphatic filariasis is one of the world’s leading causes of permanent and long-term disability. Sometimes referred to as Elephantiasis tropica, ...
Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Could Transform the Fight Against Malaria
It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of ...
Africa Malaria Task Force Reconvenes to Share Resources, Strategies and Expertise
A two-day virtual training event was held June 29-30, 2021, in support of Africa Malaria Task Force (AMTF) in Naples, ...
Biomarkers Identified to Predict Severe Dengue
Researchers have identified a combination of biological markers in patients with dengue that could help clinicians triage and predict whether ...
Stopping Zika: Engineering an Alternative to ‘Suicide Mosquitoes’
A new study from the University of Missouri and Colorado State University outlines the application of CRISPR gene-editing technology to ...
Tetracycline-based Antibiotics Show Promise for Combating Zika Infections
A widely used antibiotic methacycline was shown effective at preventing brain infections and reducing neurological problems associated with Zika virus ...
Light Pollution May Increase Biting Behaviors of Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
Artificial light abnormally increases mosquito biting behavior at night in a species that typically prefers to bite people during the ...
Study Indicates The Need to Revise Protocol for Detecting Zika in Placenta
Shortly after the explosion in microcephaly cases caused by Zika virus in Brazil in 2015-16, several scientific studies were published ...
The EU Not Ready for the Release of Gene Drive Organisms into the Environment
Within the last decades, new genetic engineering tools for manipulating genetic material in plants, animals and microorganisms are getting large ...
CHIKRisk: Mapping the Next Chikungunya Outbreak
A new computer application — called CHIKRisk — uses statistical modeling to help predict the risk of an outbreak of ...
Massachusetts Gov. Proposes New Legislation to Mitigate Threat of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, West Nile Virus
For those that contract EEE, mortality rates range up to 50 percent and, for those who survive, 80 percent have ...
It’s An Exciting Time to Be a Microbiologist
The team at Nature Microbiology takes stock of the past year, highlighting coverage of vector biology research such as the global distribution ...
Understanding Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Zika Transmission
In most cases, mosquitoes of the genus Aedes transmit the Zika virus to humans. Primary vectors are the yellow fever ...
Rift Valley Fever: Preventing Deadly Outbreaks
Join EcoHealth Alliance and a team of leading experts on December 12, 2018 as they talk about the work they're ...
Invasive Mosquitoes in California Capable of Transmitting Zika
Over the last five years, Zika virus has emerged as a significant global human health threat following outbreaks in South ...
The Emergence of Usutu Virus in Europe
Researchers are taking stock of the emergence of Usutu virus in Europe, a mosquito-borne virus that circulates between birds. It ...
In Pictures: Decades of Navy Efforts to Combat Malaria
Malaria is ranked by the Department of Defense as the number one infectious disease threat to military personnel deployed to ...
