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Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations

ANN ARBOR — Researchers have debated for more than two decades the likely impacts, if any, of global warming on the worldwide incidence of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that infects more than 300 million people each year.

Now, University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues are reporting the first hard evidence that malaria does—as had long been predicted—creep to higher elevations during warmer years and back down to lower altitudes when temperatures cool. (more…)

Decoding dengue and West Nile: Researchers take steps toward control of growing public health problems

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2014Health3d structure, atom, crystal, david akey, decoding dengue, dengue virus infection, flu-like symptoms, georgios skiniotis, immune system, mosquito borne disease, ns1, protein, public health, purdue university, replicate, richard kuhn, somnath dutta, spread infection, technique, united states, university of michigan, virus, west nile

ANN ARBOR — Dengue fever and West Nile fever are mosquito-borne diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year, but there is no vaccine against either of the related viruses.

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan and Purdue University has discovered a key aspect both to how the viruses replicate in the cells of their host and how they manipulate the immune system as they spread. (more…)

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Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations

Decoding dengue and West Nile: Researchers take steps toward control of growing public health problems