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Researchers have discovered the way that the immune system of a mosquito defeats the malaria-causing parasite.The Anopheles mosquito is the insect that transmits malaria to people and in some cases it dies because of the disease too, but most of them are able to fight off the infection.The immune system of a mosquito... |
10 September 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Injections are no fun, regardless of what some might say, but that could soon change with the invention of the painless 'microneedle', a device that works much in the same way as the needle of mosquitoes while sucking blood. In the case of the aforementioned insects, the whole process consists of blood bein... |
18 July 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Although the first dengue viral infection is painful, it is often harmless. However, if contracted for a second time, it can turn deadly. With all that, there are some cases in which getting infected for the second time with the dengue virus can in fact be beneficial for the body, helping the immune system fight both... |
16 July 2008
11:14 GMT |
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It is generally believed that mosquitoes basically lay their eggs in just about any body of water that they can find. A team of researchers from Tulane University in collaboration with colleagues from several North Carolina State universities however, revealed that yellow fever mosquitoes require precise concentratio... |
9 July 2008
05:34 GMT |
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While the summertime brings us a lot of pleasures, especially in terms of weather, it also comes with a large variety of annoying insects, amongst which the mosquito, a never-ending source of discomfort and ultimately pain. Most of the time, a pesticide will do just fine in keeping these hungry bugs at a distance, al... |
8 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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They are an annoyance that can ruin our pleasantest trip. But in rural areas, with so many domestic and wild animals around, the insects' proliferation is unavoidable, and with them come their bites. That's why people have looked for many natural remedies to alleviate them. To relieve rapidly the uneasiness... |
28 September 2007
16:31 GMT |
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This parasite kills 1 to 3 million people annually, 90 % African children in south Sahara, while 650 million suffer the consequences of this disastrous disease. Malaria is caused by a protozoa (single-celled) parasite, Plasmodium, and is transmitted from individual to individual through the bite of the Anopheles mosq... |
13 August 2007
07:00 GMT |
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These are the strangest females invented by nature. But they do not ruin the life of their own males but ours. Mosquitoes are insects of the Order Diptera (thus related with the flies, even "mosquito" is a Spanish word meaning "little fly"), suborder Nematocera ("with thin antennae") and belong to the Culicidae famil... |
8 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The mosquito is much more dangerous than just the cause of a nasty itching. At the tropics, malaria is the greatest killer and mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus and it's already present in the US. Mosquitoes have been around for at least 175 million years and they are here to stay, with all our efforts of fig... |
30 July 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Nature invented the most annoying insects: mosquitoes. They carry diseases, suck blood and what's worst, they are practically everywhere in the world, from tropics to poles. Still, they have some amazing abilities (apart from detecting us no matter how the weather is): they can both walk on water and cling to w... |
19 July 2007
03:45 GMT |
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Did you know that scientists consider that the animal that kills most people is... the mosquito!? That's because mosquito-transmitted malaria kills annually 1.5 million people, mainly African children, not to mention the victims of yellow and dengue fevers. Now an international team has mapped the genes that con... |
22 June 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Just a small inaudible buzz and that's all, you can get rid of mosquitoes. It sounds good, isn't it? No smelling chemicals, no itchy ointments... That's what electronic mosquito repellents are for: emitting ultrasounds mimicking the beating of male mosquito wings. The devices are employed indoors and o... |
18 April 2007
04:02 GMT |
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Females can turn your life into a living hell.That's literally in the case of the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are insects of the Order Diptera (thus related with the flies), suborder Nematocera ("with thin antennae"), and Culicidae family. Mosquitoes are thought to have appeared during the Jurassic Epoch (the middle ... |
2 April 2007
12:02 GMT |
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Malaria is a vector-borne disease provoked by the single-celled parasite Plasmodium, endemic in parts of Asia, New Guinea, Africa, and central and South America. The vector of the parasite is the Anopheles mosquito. Annually, the parasite causes disease in 400 million people and inflicts 1-3 million deaths worldwide.... |
20 March 2007
04:46 GMT |
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