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  • Mosquitos of the future may vaccinate against malaria, instead of spread it (20 Mar 2010 08:23)

    ... Mosquitos are one of the major ways that ... vaccine within its saliva. Bites from the insect succeeded in raising antibodies, indicating successful immunization ... successful immunization with the Leishmania vaccine through blood feeding.” Of course, this vaccination idea isn't ...

  • Anopheles aquasalis Infected by Plasmodium vivax Displays Unique Gene Expression Profiles when Compared to Other Malaria Vectors and Plasmodia (20 Mar 2010 14:17)

    ... 2 and 24 hours after feeding on blood and blood from malaria patients infected with ... infected with to identify changes in the mosquito vector gene induction that could be important ... Genes related to embryogenesis were down-regulated in insects infected by . Only a handful of ...

  • Mosquitos may help fight malaria (20 Mar 2010 04:10)

    ... Japanese scientists have developed a genetically modified mosquito that vaccinates as it bites and could ... malaria. The research team has created an insect producing a natural vaccine protein in its ... vaccine against Leishmania, another potentially fatal parasite disease spread by sand flies, reports. Leishmania infection ...

  • Japanese scientists develop mosquitoes which may help fight malaria (20 Mar 2010 05:14)

    ... A genetically modified mosquito that vaccinates as it bites and could ... has been developed by Japanese scientists. An insect producing a natural vaccine protein in its ... vaccine against Leishmania, another potentially fatal parasite disease spread by sand flies. Leishmania infection can ...

  • Deter the hungry mosquito (20 Mar 2010 03:31)

    ... or picnic is the tiny and mighty mosquito. Choosing an insect repellent to make that outdoor experience more ... such as vomiting, drowsiness, a drop in blood pressure, and seizures. with either picaridin or ...

  • Global malaria investments saving lives, more funds needed (20 Mar 2010 07:47)

    ... to a drop in deaths from the disease also shows that resources from donor governments ... halving deaths and ensuring universal coverage with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), and will fail to reach ... with inexpensive, proven interventions such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets and access to anti-malarial drugs. "Using ...

  • Controlling Mosquitoes Controversial in Washington (20 Mar 2010 03:42)

    ... is developing a new permit for spraying mosquitoes with the aim of protecting water quality. ... happen if the bugs were infected with disease. But that testing can take a week ...

  • Mosquito Spraying Faces Regulations (20 Mar 2010 12:21)

    ... year federal courts started requiring permits for mosquito spraying. Before, Mosquito Control Districts could spray ... only allowed to spray for mosquitoes with disease. It also keeps them from using the ...

  • Local gardening expert promotes eco-diversity (20 Mar 2010 02:25)

    ... and shelter to birds, pollinators and other animals that play an essential role in the ... plant, the more diversity we get, including insects," she said. Scientists believe as wildlife habitats ... animals and ideas for ways to attract mosquito-eating bats and slug-eating toads. She even suggested ...

  • Herbal Treatment Needs Careful Use [opinion] (20 Mar 2010 03:36)

    ... and effective herb for treating sexually transmitted diseases -- which he said neutralises some drugs ... of wormwood and lavender prevents and treats malaria. "The gel oil from lavender is rubbed ... is rubbed onto the skin to prevent mosquito bites that cause malaria," he said. Cheek ...

  • Ethiopia: the hunger has never gone away (20 Mar 2010 03:36)

    ... Ethiopia: More than 80,000 children die from malaria each year yet untreated mosquito nets cost just €2 and treated mosquito ... putting them at risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS. For more, read ...

  • El Salvador Begins Campaign against Dengue (20 Mar 2010 15:01)

    ... Latina) A health campaign against Aedes Aegypti mosquito, transmitter of dengue fever, began in El Salvador ... detected nearly three million outbreaks of that insect. According to the Ministry of Health, more ...

  • Seven New Rift Valley Fever Human Cases Confirmed (20 Mar 2010 03:36)

    ... livestock or linked to farms with confirmed animal cases of RVF, said the Department of ... tissues of livestock and less frequently from mosquito bites. RVF symptoms usually last from four ... and the virus gradually disappears from the blood. ...

  • South-East Nema Raises Alarm Over Cerebral Meningitis (20 Mar 2010 03:36)

    ... Onimode, described Cerebrospinal Meningitis as a deadly disease that kills faster than the dreaded Human ... be used to prevent meningitis, the way mosquito nets are used to prevent malaria. His words: "At this period of the ...

  • How to prevent the next global crisis (20 Mar 2010 02:52)

    ... indeed became one of the most widespread diseases in human history, it did not have ... of climate refugees, and Z billions of malaria mosquitoes will result if we dont act. But ...

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