Argentinian researchers from the Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas have developed a new trap that can be used to effectively monitor and control the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is the primary transmitter ...
Apr 6, 2016
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Increasing temperatures will enlarge Europe's seasonal window for the potential spread of mosquito-borne viral disease, expanding the geographic areas at risk for a dengue epidemic to include much of Europe. The findings ...
Apr 6, 2016
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Chilean health officials say they've registered the first locally acquired case of the Zika virus, which was sexually transmitted within the country.
Mar 26, 2016
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Authorities Saturday reported the first sexually transmitted case of Zika in mainland Chile, where there is no known presence of the mosquito generally blamed for passing on the virus suspected of causing birth defects.
Mar 26, 2016
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The World Health Organization says the worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has killed 178 people in Angola.
Mar 24, 2016
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Microbide Limited, an Irish clean technologies company, has signed up to the global Statement on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies and today published its studies demonstrating the larviciding capability against Aedes ...
Mar 24, 2016
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Florida, with its wet, mostly subtropical climate, should be fertile ground for the Zika virus, but is ready to fight hard to fend it off, officials said Wednesday.
Mar 24, 2016
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Key factors that can combine to produce a Zika virus outbreak are expected to be present in a number of U.S. cities during peak summer months, new research shows.
Mar 16, 2016
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Honduras on Friday reported its first death from a paralyzing illness linked to the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne epidemic that is spreading through Latin America and also suspected of causing birth defects.
Mar 11, 2016
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The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm's proposal to deploy a genetically modified mosquito to try to stop transmission of the disease.
Mar 11, 2016
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