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Google uses new tool to track dengue fever hubs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13599859 Google is using search patterns about dengue fever in an attempt to help health officials prepare for outbreaks. |
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Anti-dengue mosquitoes released in Australia
New Scientist reports that some 300,000 mosquitoes with the potential to block the spread of dengue fever have been released in Australia, in a large-scale trial of one of the most promising techniques to rid the world of the disease. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20827-a...eleased-in-australia.html |
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Cuba 'Ladies in White' founder Laura Pollan dies from Dengue fever.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15319067 |
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Scientific American reports in brief:
"Scientists have genetically engineered mosquitoes with a self-destruct mechanism, an advance that could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases." These mosquitoes have already secretly and controversially been released in Mexico. It is "attempted genocide-by-mating that has the potential to wipe out dengue fever, one of the world’s most troublesome, aggressive diseases." The full article link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-wipeout-gene |
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Concerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Used to Fight Dengue
A New York Times article spotlights several concerns about the use of genetically engineered mosquitoes to fight Dengue. Apparently, the genetically modified male mosquitoes carry a gene that lets them live long enough to mate, but causes their progeny to die before adulthood. The article cites a trial last year on Grand Cayman island that reduced the specific population of mosquito that causes Dengue by 80% for three months, although full results of that trial have not yet been published. The two page NYT article contains some very interesting information and can be found at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/science/con...engineered-mosquitoes.htm |
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here we come
Combating humanity’s old enemy In a cramped London laboratory filled with test tubes, bacteria and mosquitoes, scientists are trying to engineer a new weapon in the battle against malaria: a mutant fungus. .. |
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New discovery on how the body fights dengue fever
The website MedicalXpress reports: "Researchers from Washington University, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, report a new finding that a part of the immune system called mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is involved in targeting dengue viruses for destruction. MBL recognizes sugar molecules present on the outsides of many different kinds of viruses and bacteria. When it finds these sugars, MBL activates the complement system, which targets foreign materials in the body for destruction in any of a number of cruel ways. Scientists have known that the complement system takes a hit during dengue infection, but until now no one knew that it was also involved in getting rid of dengue viruses." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-discove...html#174;%20on%20December |
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Research points to possible new route to fight dengue virus
A potential new approach to fighting dengue has been suggested by new research that identified enzymes and biochemical compounds called lipids that are targeted and modified by the dengue virus during infection. According to an an article on the R&D Magazine website the "Findings also suggest that medications used to treat high cholesterol and other lipid-related conditions might also inhibit dengue's replication and could represent a potential new therapy." More details are at the link below: http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/03/Life-Scienc...te-To-Fight-Dengue-Virus/ |
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The New York Times reports that the Dengue virus appears to make the insects' antennae more sensitive to odors - making them better at hunting humans, the virus only known mammalian host.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/rese...tier-for-human-blood.html |
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