Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What to know about malaria as US reports its first homegrown cases in decades
For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. has recorded homegrown malaria cases.
Sep 6, 2023
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News tagged with anopheles mosquitoes
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Florida ramps up mosquito control efforts due to 4 cases of locally contracted malaria
The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four locally contracted cases of malaria were reported along the Gulf Coast south of Tampa.
Jun 27, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The search for a malaria vaccine
Our battle with malaria has lasted thousands of years. We need better vaccines or we risk losing, according to UNSW Sydney researchers.
Apr 24, 2023
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Global health researchers use human movement patterns to determine risk of malaria spreading during certain times of day
The spread of malaria is dependent on Anopheles mosquitoes that spread the disease, and it persists in places where these types of mosquitoes exist and where there are enough people to keep the parasite thriving in humans. ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Human mobility in the Amazon 'pushes malaria to cities'
Understanding population mobility patterns could hold the key to tackling malaria in the Amazon, say scientists.
Dec 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Evolving malaria mosquitoes getting harder to control
Anopheles malaria mosquitoes in Africa and Latin America are evolving in response to human activity, studies in both continents have found.
Dec 4, 2020
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Zanzibar tests drones spraying rice fields to fight malaria
For the first time drones are being tested to help fight malaria on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania.
Nov 5, 2019
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Medical research
Copy-number variants in insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes
Researchers from LSTM, working alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, have used whole genome sequencing to understand copy-number variants (CNVs) ...
Jul 26, 2019
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Mosquito surveillance uncovers new information about malaria transmission in Madagascar
Riley Tedrow, Ph.D., a medical entomologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has uncovered new findings about malaria transmission in Madagascar. In a recent study published in PLoS Neglected Tropical ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Urbanization changes shape of mosquitoes' wings
The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the main transmission vector of dengue, Zika, yellow fever and chikungunya in Brazil. It is highly adapted to urban environments and rarely found in forested areas. The mosquito Anopheles cruzii ...
Jan 23, 2019
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