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Scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment
A vector refers to an organism that carries and transmits an infectious disease, as mosquitoes do malaria.
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Multiple mosquito blood meals accelerate malaria transmission
Multiple bouts of blood feeding by mosquitoes shorten the incubation period for malaria parasites and increase malaria transmission potential, according to a study published December 31 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens ...
Dec 31, 2020
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Researchers use artificial intelligence to ID mosquitos
Rapid and accurate identification of mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens such as malaria is an essential part of mosquito-borne disease surveillance. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have ...
Dec 17, 2020
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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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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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Young asymptomatic 'super spreaders' keep malaria viable by infecting local mosquitoes
Malaria researchers, working in an area of Uganda where infections have been dropping dramatically, discovered a small number of infected but asymptomatic school-age children can serve as stealth "super spreaders" responsible ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Malaria parasites hide out in humans when it's not mosquito season
Malaria parasites survive the mosquito-free dry season by waiting silently in humans for the return of the rainy season that brings back with it mosquitoes. New research, by an international team including Penn State scientists, ...
Oct 27, 2020
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Invasive mosquito species could bring more malaria to Africa's urban areas
A species of mosquito that can carry malaria—known as Anopheles stephensi – has invaded eastern Africa and is quickly moving across the region. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jeremy Herren and Clifford ...
Oct 20, 2020
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Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study
A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads throughout the continent, a study said Monday.
Sep 14, 2020
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Researchers anticipate rise of some mosquito-borne diseases
All mosquitoes are not created equal. Different species of the flying pest thrive at various temperature ranges and transmit different diseases. From this starting point, a Stanford-led paper for the first time predicts how, ...
Sep 9, 2020
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