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Female Anopheles mosquito CREDIT: Wikipedia. PHOTO: REUTERS/Jim Gathany/CDC/Handout via Reuters

Anxiety over worldwide malaria re-infection

•U.S. govt issues health alert as malaria cases in over 20 years resurface in two states •New mosquito species found in Florida, Finland, three other countries for first time Nigeria and the
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This photo taken on August 23, 2019 shows laboratory official Nguyen Viet Hoang examining mosquito samples at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi. - Hundreds dead in the Philippines; a threefold increase of cases in Vietnam; hospitals overrun in Malaysia, Myanmar and Cambodia -- dengue is ravaging Southeast Asia this year due in part to rising temperatures and low immunity to new strains. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Vietnam-Singapore-Malaysia-Philippines-health-dengue-science,FEATURE by Jenny VAUGHAN

Mosquito trials raise hopes of defeating dengue

Hundreds dead in the Philippines; a threefold increase of cases in Vietnam; hospitals overrun in Malaysia, Myanmar and Cambodia -- dengue is ravaging Southeast Asia this year due in part to rising
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Ikeja Electric (IE) in partnership with Hygeia HMO took its We Care campaign to Ojota

Lagos slum residents get mosquito nets

The over 5,000-member Gidan Kwali, an enclave under the Maryland bridge in Ojota, Lagos State, came alive yesterday when Ikeja Electric (IE) in partnership with Hygeia HMO took its We Care campaign
5 years ago
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MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES CREDIT: https://www.ucdavis.edu

Mosquito, tick-borne diseases set to flourish in warmer climes

New research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 13-16) showed that the geographical range of vector-borne diseases ...
5 years ago
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Ensuring malaria elimination by 2030

Despite recent setbacks in efforts to eliminate malaria globally by 2030, experts are optimistic that the mosquito-borne disease could be wipe out from the surface of the Earth sooner than later.
6 years ago
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