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<title>Lifesavers: Net campaign helps families in Cte d&#39;Ivoire</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207322902</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 15:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the front door. For many people, a mosquito net that would cost $10 in the  ...  Anne Marie said. &amp;ldquo;Malaria is a dangerous disease. You should not play with it.&amp;rdquo; The mosquito-borne disease kills one in five children under  ...
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<title>Dengue vaccine hopes high</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207321924</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 15:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  been severe enough to require hospitalisation. The mosquito-borne &amp;lsquo;bonebreak&amp;rsquo; fever, as it is sometimes called,  ...  real health risk, because experts say the disease is most serious when a person who  ...  look-out for signs of the Aedes aegypti mosquito re-establishing itself in Brisbane, where it was  ...
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<title>Dengue victims look to vaccine</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207310354</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 14:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on the other side also caught the mosquito-borne virus, followed by her 18-year-old son, Ben. The disease has no cure, or even effective treatments  ...  are very vigilant about spraying themselves (with mosquito repellent) when they come and visit.&quot; Ben  ...
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<title>More staff to be sent to dengue-hit N Qld</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207262167</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 08:04 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Action Response Team as it sought out mosquito breeding sights at suburban homes in Cairns.  ...  in Cairns. Ninety-six people have contracted the mosquito-borne disease in Cairns since the outbreak began a  ...
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<title>Bug Love: Mosquitoes Sing Duet in Harmony</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207176666</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 21:01 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by subtly adjusting their buzz frequencies. The mosquito duet was discovered in a recent study  ...  have implications for stemming the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases. One prevention idea has been to breed  ...
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<title>Whining and Dining: Love, Mosquito Style</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207174979</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 20:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  powerful love song. Aedes aegypti , the mosquito species that transmits dengue and yellow fever  ...  dance of the insects that carry these diseases may help scientists knock down their numbers,  ...  mating behavior to reduce the burden of insect-borne diseases around the world.&quot; Citation: &quot;Harmonic Convergence  ...
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<title>Dengue cases doubled last year</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207160821</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:19 GMT</pubDate>
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... NEW DELHI: Dengue  the vector borne disease that can often prove fatal, struck with  ...  coolers are packed away but dengue spreading mosquito eggs stick to their walls. Uniquely, these  ...
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<title>SRI LANKA: Dengue deaths drop, but health officials urge more vigilance</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207098676</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 13:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  after Sri Lanka&#39;s worst outbreak of dengue fever, fewer people are dying of the mosquito-borne disease, but health officials caution that more public action is needed to prevent epidemics. The  ...
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<title>Dengue fever cases will rise, says expert</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207007587</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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... Townsville-based tropical disease expert Peter Leggat believes dengue fever is  ...  Cairns and five in Townsville contracting the mosquito borne disease. Dr Leggat, from James Cook University&#39;s  ...
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<title>Second dengue outbreak infects 83</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206883155</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 13:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  confirmed to have been infected by the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause severe joint pain  ...  caused by a different strain of the disease in Townsville. The development has worried infectious  ...  days must then elapse before the infected mosquito is capable of transmitting the infection to  ...
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<title>Hospitals struggle to cope with outbreak</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206711012</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 16:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  months, 78 cases of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus have been confirmed in Cairns and  ...  said three teams were working on implementing mosquito control measures but even if that number  ...  Biosecurity Co-operative Research Centre for Emergency Infectious Disease. &quot;We do need to be careful about  ...
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<title>UQ Scientists Closing The Zap On Dengue Fever</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206677306</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... A mosquito-borne virus that each year harms up to  ...  limiting the lifespan of the type of mosquito that spreads dengue fever. They have done  ...  fever, which is a painful and debilitating disease also known as &#39;breakbone fever&#39;. Dengue haemorrhagic  ...
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<title>Yellow fever kills South American monkeys</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206540240</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 19:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  officials say a major outbreak of the disease among humans is unlikely. However, the discovery  ...  &quot;positive&quot; given their high vulnerability to the mosquito-borne disease. Ten Argentines contracted yellow fever last  ...
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