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A promising step toward controlling Zika virus and dengue fever

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2016Healthbinab, david eisenberg, dengue fever, duilio cascio, insecticides, larvicide, mari gingery, mosquitoes, zika virus

UCLA scientists and colleagues identify structure of a molecule that kills mosquitoes carrying malaria and West Nile

Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes. The findings move the scientific world one step closer to genetically engineering a toxin that would be lethal to species that carry dengue fever and the Zika virus. (more…)

Volunteers Can Now Help Scripps Research Institute Scientists Seek Ebola Cure in Their (Computers’) Spare Time

By Guest PostDecember 3, 2014Health, Technologyaais openidl, aids, andrea graham, cancer, co infections, dengue fever, duerre sommer, influenza, Japan, malaria, naturvertraegliche energiewende, project, sarah budischak, scripps research institute, solving infectious disease, stanley litow, use of blockchain

IBM’s SoftLayer cloud-enabled World Community Grid to provide free virtual supercomputer power to The Scripps Research Institute to speed screening of promising chemical compounds

ARMONK, NY & LA JOLLA, CA – 03 Dec 2014: Although some medical therapies show promise as treatments for Ebola, scientists are still looking urgently for a definitive cure.

For the first time, anyone with access to a computer or Android-based mobile device can help scientists perform this critical research — no financial contribution, passport, or PhD necessary. In fact, volunteers can be asleep, traveling or on a coffee break when they help researchers search for an Ebola cure. (more…)

Early warning system predicts dengue fever risk during the Brazil World Cup

By Guest PostMay 29, 2014Healthdengue fever, dengue fever outbreaks, dengue fever risk, early warning system, past dengue cases, warnings of dengue

University of Exeter scientists have helped develop an early-warning system to predict the risk of dengue fever outbreaks in Brazil during the forthcoming World Cup.

The study, developed by a team of European scientists, estimates the chances of outbreaks of the mosquito-borne infection disease in Brazil’s administrative areas – or microregions – during this summer’s festival of football. (more…)

Breaking Dengue Fever

By Guest PostJune 30, 2013Healthasia-pacific, China, dengue fever, florida, guangzhou, hawaii, infectious disease, malaria, michigan state university, mosquito species, mosquitoes, sun yat sen, united states, university, vaccine, wolbachia bacteria, zhiyong xi

Like malaria, dengue fever is an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Unlike malaria, there is no vaccine for it. As many as 100 million people contract dengue each year, but MSU researcher Zhiyong Xi is working to change that.

Among the estimated 2.5 billion people at risk for dengue, more than 70 percent live in Asia Pacific countries, which spurred Xi to establish a collaborative research institute at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. (more…)

What Makes Ticks Tick?

By Guest PostMarch 11, 2012Healthanaplasmosis, antibiotic therapy, apple, arthritis, babesiosis, bacterium, climate change, dengue fever, disease, durland fish, european ancestry, evolution, infectious diseases, iPhone, lyme disease, maine, malaria, michigan, minnesota, neurological problems, North America, Pennsylvania, placebo, ticks, united states, virginia, west nile virus, wisconsin

Durland Fish has researched ticks and their associated diseases for decades. A professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, he has, among other things, contributed to the discovery that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has European ancestry and that the disease, once nearly eradicated in North America, roared back with reforestation. More recently he helped develop a Lyme disease “app” for the iPhone and other Apple devices that provides users with detailed information about tick populations in any given area in the United States and even comes with a video on how to safely remove a tick. He has also worked on mosquito-borne West Nile virus and dengue fever. Students selected Fish as the school’s mentor of the year in 2010. (more…)

High Population Density is Greatest Risk Factor For Water-Linked Diseases

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Healthbo lu, c k shum, central africa, dengue fever, diarrhea, disease transmission, doug alsdorf, e coli, eastern brazil, environmental change, environmental condition, gideon, global analysis, hazards, hot spots, infectious disease, insect bite, jeffrey lejeune, kun yang, latin america, legionella, malaria, model, northern india, ohio state database, population density, risk factor, routes, schistosomiasis, song liang, southeast asia, surface area, trypanosomiasis, water associated, water bodies, western europe

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Water-associated infectious disease outbreaks are more likely to occur in areas where a region’s population density is growing, according to a new global analysis of economic and environmental conditions that influence the risk for these outbreaks.

Ohio State University scientists constructed a massive database containing information about 1,428 water-associated disease outbreaks that were reported between 1991 and 2008 around the world. By combining outbreak records with data on a variety of socio-environmental factors known about the affected regions, the researchers developed a model that can be used to predict risks for water-associated disease outbreaks anywhere in the world. (more…)

Making Blood-Sucking Deadly for Mosquitoes

By Guest PostJuly 17, 2011Scienceaedes aegypti, biochemical processes, blood feeding, blood meal, cellular process, coatomer protein 1, copi, copi system, dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, dengue viruses, digestive enzymes, egg production cycle, jun isoe, molecular process cells, mosquitoes, protein complex, proteins, rnai, roger miesfeld, secretion of enzymes, sub tropical, tablespoons of sugar, the university of arizona, toolbox, tropical regions of africa, vesicle transport, warm blooded animals

*Inhibiting a molecular process cells use to direct proteins to their proper destinations causes more than 90 percent of affected mosquitoes to die within 48 hours of blood feeding, a UA team of biochemists found.*

Mosquitoes die soon after a blood meal if certain protein components are experimentally disrupted, a team of biochemists at the University of Arizona has discovered.

The approach could be used as an additional strategy in the worldwide effort to curb mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever, yellow fever and malaria. (more…)

WHO’s report on ‘Global Health Risks and Life Expectancy’

By ShamsNovember 5, 2009Healthconflict over natural resources, dengue fever, factors causing deaths, global health risks, health policy, life expectancy, lung cancer, natural calamity, photochemical air pollutants, premature deaths, risk factor climate changes, thermal extremes, tobacco, united nations world health organization, water borne infections, WHO

Few days back the United Nations World Health Organization published its report on ‘global health risks’ those are responsible for millions of premature deaths annually.

Otherwise, if controlled, global life expectancy could increase five years more.

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