Researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
A new analysis reveals that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, chikungunya and Zika is 29 degrees C. This finding helps predict disease outbreaks in a warming world. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 3, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Stanford researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
(Stanford University) A new analysis by Stanford researchers reveals that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases like dengue, chikungunya and Zika is 29 degrees C. This finding helps predict disease outbreaks in a warming world. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 2, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Florida releases experimental mosquitoes to fight Zika
Thousands of mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria were released in an area of the Florida Keys this week, in hopes of a new approach to control the disease-carrying female Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits Zika virus, Dengue fever and Chikungunya. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenya to Present Report On Tropical Diseases At Geneva Forum
[Nation] Kenya will on Wednesday present to the world the progress it has made in eradicating diseases such as elephantiasis, intestinal worms, trachoma, dengue and Chikungunya. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 20, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya Toolkit: Adaptation for Latin America and the Caribbean
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 04/18/2017 These tools for Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya Prevention include three toolkits, teaching modules, and a Seasonal Calendar for Vector Control that were developed to initiate a long-term engagement with the communities at risk through awareness and health promotion materials. These materials will help healthcare practitioners and volunteers foster dialogue with communities and ensure that prevention is seen as the primary way of combating vector-borne diseases. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 19, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Disease Burden Growing as Vector Insects Adapt to Climate Change
Dry drains will reduce the numbers of mosquitoes breeding, but now the Aedes aegypti mosquito is going underground to breed underground in available water and flying to feed. Credit: Zadie Neufville/IPSBy Zadie NeufvilleKINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr 18 2017 (IPS)There were surprised gasps when University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor John Agard told journalists at an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in late November 2016 that mosquitoes were not only living longer, but were “breeding in septic tanks underground”.For many, it explained why months of fogging at the height of Zika and Chikungunya out...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 18, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zadie Neufville Tags: Caribbean Climate Wire Climate Change Featured Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Projects Water & Sanitation Chagas Disease Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mosquitoes Zika Virus Source Type: news
Yellow Fever Has Become A Looming Threat For Brazilian City-Dwellers
Brazil could be on the precipice of a serious yellow fever outbreak ― even though a vaccine for the disease has existed since the 1930s and is 99 percent effective.
Health authorities in the country reported at least 600 laboratory-confirmed yellow fever infections and more than 200 deaths, primarily in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo and São Paulo, between December and April 6. Hundreds of additional cases are still being investigated.
Yellow fever can be extremely serious, according to the Mayo Clinic. Acute symptoms can include fever, headache and dizziness, while more severe s...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zika Virus Disease Update for Clinicians
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 04/06/2016 This 51-minute webinar provides a Zika virus update for health care clinicians, including background information about Zika virus, Aedes mosquitoes and their range in the United States, and modes of transmission. It discusses the complications of Zika virus, distinguishing Zika from dengue and chikungunya, diagnostic testing for Zika virus, and reporting Zika virus disease cases. (Video or Multimedia) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 29, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Genetically modified mosquito use considered in Houston
Mosquitoes that can carry Zika virus, dengue fever and chikungunya are common in the Houston region (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - March 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Testing for Zika Virus: There's an App for That
Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that weighs under a pound, costs as little as $100 and can detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - March 21, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Testing for Zika virus: There's an app for that
Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that weighs under a pound, costs as little as $100 and can detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 20, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Testing for Zika virus: There's an app for that
(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that weighs under a pound, costs as little as $100 and can detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - March 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
There's A Reason Zika Virus Became A Pandemic In 2015
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue- and Zika-spreading mosquito
(University of California - Riverside) The mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever virus, requires a blood meal to develop eggs. One way to control the spread of these diseases is to tamper with the reproductive events that follow this mosquito's blood meal. A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside has explored this at the molecular level. They focused on microRNAs, which play a critical role in mosquito egg maturation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 22, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Washington D.C. Lab Messed Up Hundreds Of Zika Tests
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Officials in Washington, D.C.’s public health laboratory had to repeat Zika tests for nearly 300 pregnant women, including two women who were mistakenly told they tested negative for the mosquito-borne virus that has been shown to cause birth defects.
A routine check of lab practices in December revealed that all of the lab’s Zika tests were coming back negative, raising concerns about their accuracy, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
CDC experts, who have been working with the lab since mid-January, discovered that technicians doing Zika...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
