Medicine & TechnologyIntroducing Wolbachia bacteria to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes has been found to reduce the transmission of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases. Learn more about it in this article.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have the potential to transmit the Zika virus, chikungunya, and dengue, have been detected in Santa Clara County. Read the article to learn more of this story.
A notice from district officials in Sacramento said that mosquito species that potentially carry serious illnesses including Zika virus and dengue fever, among others, have been discovered in south Sacramento.
Mosquitoes are carriers of arbovirus that cause dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya. But scientists have found a way to prevent the transmission of these viruses by feeding mosquitoes with sugar.
NIH researchers used a variety of drugs to test out 10,000 compounds and found that the commonly used antibiotic methacycline effectively prevents brain injuries due to Zika virus.
Mosquitos carrying diseases such as dengue, Zika virus, and yellow fever will become more common in many parts of the world as the changes in weather pattern and temperature continues.
The study includes a comprehensive review of the models used to study deadly mosquito-borne flaviviruses (MBF) such as dengue fever and the Zika virus, known to cause neurological disease in humans
Researchers have investigated and observed that Zika virus is not the only thing to be blame on pregnancy problems and fetal abnormalities for it only results to small rate on the problems. Furthermore, Zika virus now retreats in America for the cases had been decreased from last year.