Showing posts with label Mosquito. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosquito. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Grand Rounds: Preventing Aedes Mosquito-Borne Diseases

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  # 10,049   Each month the CDC holds a Grand Rounds web presentation that focuses on a single health-related issue.  In the past...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

Updating West Nile, CHKV & Dengue

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  # 8926   While Ebola dominates the daily news cycle, there are plenty of other public health concerns out there that are far more...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Wolbachia, West Nile Virus & An Unexpected Result

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Credit Wikpedia   # 8824   Three years ago the mosquito-disease control world was abuzz with news of a promising new method to pr...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Dealing With Uninvited Guests

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Aedes Albopictus – Asian Tiger Mosquito   # 8746   Yesterday Dr. Jen Halverson left a highly informative comment on my PAHO Chi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

JAMA: The 2012 West Nile Encephalitis Epidemic in Dallas, Tx

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    # 7487 Although West Nile Virus (WNV) activity was high across much of the country in 2012, the hardest hit area was Dallas Coun...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Florida: An Early Case Of EEE

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  Credit FL DOH # 7031     Although much of the rest of the country has endured a long procession of bitter winter storms, Flor...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

PLoS One: Mosquitoes Less Deterred By DEET After Previous Exposure

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  # 6954     In May of 2010 in  From the `Nature Bats Last’ Dept , we looked at a PNAS study by James Logan et al. that look...
Monday, January 14, 2013

The Risks Of Chikungunya Outbreaks In The United States

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  Credit Wikipedia # 6855     Chikungunya, up until about a decade ago, was a little known mosquito-borne disease first desc...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

DVBID: Final West Nile Report For 2012

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  # 6779   While final numbers won’t be available until the spring, 2012 looks like it will go down as one of the most active West ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Dengue Update: Puerto Rico, Florida & The Americas

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  # 6702   While not reaching the levels we saw during their 2010 Dengue epidemic, Puerto Rico is once again seeing epidemic levels...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

A Disease Detective Story: Figuring Out Where EEE Spends The Winter

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    # 6606     While West Nile Virus infections are far more common (see DVBID: West Nile Infections Continue Record Pace ), the E...