Posts Tagged: dengue
Dengue: Yes, You Can Get It Again
Medical entomologists are learning more and more about Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito...
Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that prefers human blood. (CDC Photo)
Global Burden of Dengue
Don't ever underestimate the threat of dengue. The mosquito-borne viral disease known as...
Professor Thomas Scott, a worldwide expert on dengue, is pictured in Kenya.
Global dengue risk. Areas in red indicate high risk for dengue occurrence while green areas indicate low risk. (Map courtesy of Jane Messina)
Temperature Fluctuations Affect Population Growth Rate of Dengue Mosquito
Exciting research today out of the University of California, Davis. The PLOS ONE journal...
Dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Fighting Dengue
The dengue research news coming out of medical entomologist Thomas Scott's lab at the University of...
Aedes aeypti, also known as the dengue mosquito. (CDC Photo)
Street scene in Iquitos, Peru. (Photo courtesy of the Thomas Scott lab, UC Davis)
An Important Message
It's Halloween tomorrow (Wednesday) but what's really frightening is Aedes aegypti, a...
Aedes aegypti transmits the deadly dengue. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Professor Sarjeet Gill at a malaria conference at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)