Migrating mosquitoes that carry diseases from the tropics to cooler climes might be better at spreading disease in their new, cooler home, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers from Yale University in … Continue reading
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Journal Club: Cooler temperatures might make some mosquitoes better dengue spreaders
Categories: Animal Behavior | Biochemistry | Climate science | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | Infectious disease | Medical Sciences
Tagged Aedes aegypti, climate change, dengue, mosquito, RNAi
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Journal Club: Mutation helps Zika virus evolve to more easily infect mosquitoes, spread infection
Scientists discovered the Zika virus over half a century ago. But it wasn’t until recent outbreaks in French Polynesia and South America that the mosquito-borne virus, now associated with Guillain-Barre syndrome in adults and microcephaly in newborn babies, reached epidemic … Continue reading
Categories: Biochemistry | Immunology | Infectious disease | Journal Club | Medical Sciences
Tagged Aedes aegypti, epidemic, mosquito, virus, Zika
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