Dengue Virus News Gathered from News-Medical.Net
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Pakistan faces widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases amid unprecedented floods
Sep 9, 2022 | 19:49 pmAmid unprecedented floods which have affected 33 million people and damaged nearly 900 health facilities, Pakistan faces the risk of widespread outbreaks of diseases, including diarrhoea, dengue, malaria, polio and COVID-19.
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Weather factors play a key role in determining the spread of dengue and other viral diseases
Jul 22, 2022 | 17:05 pmRainfall, temperature and ocean-warming affect mosquito breeding and the viral diseases they spread - study.
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Molecule in mosquito saliva can be a potential new target for halting deadly diseases
Jun 9, 2022 | 02:57 amA molecule in mosquito spit has been identified as a potential new target for vaccination against a range of diseases for which there is no protection or medicine.
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World Malaria Day 2022: How the knockdown of P. falciparum RAP01 and RAP21 proteins could lead to novel antimalarial therapeutics
Apr 25, 2022 | 14:08 pmAs part of World Malaria Day 2022, we interview Karine Le Roch PH.D., about her latest research into how novel antimalarial therapeutic strategies could be on the horizon, after identifying two proteins that are critical to the survival of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
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Sri Lanka’s healthcare system heavily affected by the current economic crisis
Apr 22, 2022 | 19:58 pmSri Lanka's acute economic crisis has begun to tell on its health care system with critical medicines running out for want of hard currency to import supplies, experts say.
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$1.4 million grant bolsters UC San Diego scientists' efforts to fight malaria spread
Mar 30, 2022 | 22:56 pmScientists at the University of California San Diego are hard at work on new genetic technologies intended for use in curbing mosquito populations, fighting the spread of malaria and mitigating the hazards associated with the deployment of gene-editing systems in the wild.
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Certain flavonoids inhibit an enzyme involved in the formation of key hormone in yellow fever mosquito
Feb 18, 2022 | 04:24 amWhen most people think of flavonoids, natural compounds found in plants and other organisms, their nutritional benefits probably come to mind first.
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Evidence antibodies targeting HCoV-OC43 are robustly boosted in response to SARS-CoV-2 but not vaccination
Nov 2, 2021 | 02:28 amThe magnitude of cross-reactive antibodies correlated well with responses to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and the S2 subdomain.
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New precision-guided sterile insect technique designed to control disease-spreading mosquitoes
Sep 12, 2021 | 02:43 amLeveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a new system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect millions each year with debilitating diseases.
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Researchers use gene editing to render male mosquitoes infertile and slow disease spread
Aug 24, 2021 | 05:12 amMosquitos spread viruses that cause potentially deadly diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and yellow fever. New U.S. Army-funded research uses gene editing to render certain male mosquitoes infertile and slow the spread of these diseases.
