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Should We Be Worried About Dengue at the 2024 Paris Olympics?

July 31, 2024September 6, 2024 Jacqueline Powers

Image by: Image by: Shawn Carpenter; CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED The 2024 Olympics have begun, and more than 10 million people are expected to be

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Dengue Outbreak in the Florida Keys

July 16, 2020October 1, 2024 Davina Kang

Image courtesy of Ben Rauch via Flickr Creative Commons On July 11, 2020, the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County (DOH-Monroe) received conformation on

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Is this the end of the mosquito?

December 2, 2019October 1, 2024 Kyle Martin

Image courtesy of Arthur Chapman via Flickr Creative Commons Background             What is considered to be the world’s deadliest animal? Is it snakes, or sharks,

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Sexual Transmission of Dengue

November 12, 2019October 1, 2024 Kyle Martin

Image courtesy of Tom via Flickr Creative Commons Background Dengue virus is an acute illness that is spread through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.

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Madrid Reports Locally Transmitted Malaria Case in Infant

March 14, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  A case of malaria in a three-month old infant was confirmed on Wednesday, February 24th, 2018. The infant was originally admitted to the hospital

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Could Genetically Modified Mosquitoes be the Solution?

August 1, 2016 Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas

On February 2016, in a district of Piracicaba, Brazil, genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes were released in an effort to reduce diseases transmitted by the Aedes

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Vector Control: Our Best Chance in the Fight Against Zika

July 25, 2016 Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas

Aedes aegypti in the Americas Latin America is currently fighting to prevent the diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito: Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya. There

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Yellow Fever Claims 125 in Angola

March 4, 2016 Colleen Nguyen

Since December 5, 2015, a Yellow fever outbreak in Angola has claimed 125 lives, with 664 suspected cases [1, 2]. The municipality of Viana in

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Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Cambodia

January 27, 2016 Colleen Nguyen

An NIH study published in The Lancet Infectious Disease earlier this month indicates that the anti-malarial medication dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine has failed to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria

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Dengue Escalates in Southeast Asia

June 21, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

Cases of dengue fever have increased in Southeast Asia over the last few months. Vietnam has reported more than 20,000 cases of dengue so far

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