Posts Tagged: Thomas Scott
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)
Zeroing in on Dengue
Deep in the heart of the Amazon forest, the dengue mosquito, Aedes aegpti, is on the prowl. So are...
Aedes aegypti transmits dengue. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Trying to Control Dengue
It's not just high temperatures that play a significant role in the transmission of dengue, a...
The dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).