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Category: Aedes aegypti

Posted on January 26, 2017January 30, 2017

India begins caged trials of GM mosquitoes to control dengue, chikungunya

Outdoor caged trials to demonstrate the efficiency of genetically modified mosquitoes to suppress wild female Aedes aegypti mosquito populations that causes dengue, chinkungunya and Zika were launched on January 23…

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Posted on June 21, 2016June 21, 2016

Holding Olympics in the time of Zika virus

The World Health Organisation has confirmed that the Olympic Games scheduled to be held in August in Rio de Janeiro will go ahead, the Zika virus notwithstanding. An Emergency Committee…

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Posted on June 18, 2016June 20, 2016

Potential drug target identified for Zika virus

At a time when no vaccines or therapeutic drugs are available against Zika and other diseases caused by flaviviruses, researchers have successfully found that disabling or silencing one single gene…

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Posted on May 30, 2016July 20, 2016

Will the Zika infection rate during Olympics be lower?

In an open letter to Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of  WHO, 150 scientists and doctors had cited several reasons why the Olympics, the world’s biggest sporting event to start from…

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Posted on May 27, 2016July 20, 2016

Finally, mosquito species transmitting Zika virus confirmed

Finally, the vector responsible for the Zika virus spread has been identified.  Though Aedes aegypti mosquito was strongly suspected of being the vector, no hard evidence was available.  Now, researchers…

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Posted on April 15, 2016May 29, 2017

Getting pregnant in the time of Zika

With the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirming that Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes microcephaly and other severe foetal brain defects, the federal health officials in the U.S.…

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Posted on April 15, 2016June 28, 2016

A ‘turning point’ in the Zika outbreak

More than 50 years after the infectious pathogen, rubella virus, was identified as the cause of an epidemic of congenital defects, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in…

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Posted on April 14, 2016June 28, 2016

CDC confirms Zika virus causes microcephaly, other birth defects

After careful review of existing evidence, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have concluded that Zika virus causes microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects. In a…

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