Mosquito News

Malaria mosquitoes are attracted by human smells

Mosquitoes infected carrying the malaria parasite are more likely to land on and examine materials laced with human body odor than materials untainted by 'the human smell'.

In the Media by Tim Sandle - 2 comments

Super-sized gallinipper mosquitoes may swarm Florida this summer

Experts at the University of Florida have warned that a breed of huge mosquitoes are expected to invade areas of Florida in "large numbers" this summer. The mosquitoes which grow 20 times bigger than the common mosquitoes are "notoriously aggressive."

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 4 comments

France’s Sanofi Pasteur to release Dengue fever vaccine

Lyon - French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur announced this week that it would soon be bringing to the market a vaccine to counter Dengue fever, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes and which is estimated to threaten almost half the world’s population.

In the Media by Robert Myles

Mosquito apps are bummer buzz kill

If the 21 century has a universal meme then one of the more popular ones has to be "Hey, there's an app for that....." Well, hey, maybe there is and maybe there isn't, but when it comes to mosquito apps save your money because they do not work.

In the Media by Richard Mccallum

Hurricane Isaac may add to near record-setting West Nile outbreak

With all the rain and flooding Isaac has left behind, some are worried the near record-setting number of West Nile cases in the US will increase. Stagnant, pooling water is a breeding ground for algae, a source of food for mosquito larvae.

In the Media by Greta McClain - 3 comments

Fears over plan to release GM mosquitoes in Key West

Key West - A company called Oxitec plans to release 5,000 to 10,000 genetically modified mosquitoes to fight the native population of mosquitoes in Key West, Florida. But residents are protesting that the potential harmful effects of the mosquitoes are uncertain.

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 4 comments

Mosquitoes engineered to be unable to transmit malaria

Scientists have bred mosquitoes which are unable to infect people with the malaria parasite. They hope that such populations of malaria-free mosquitoes can enter the ecosystem and help to curb the population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

In the Media by Tim Sandle - 7 comments

Smelly socks could prevent malaria

Every year almost 800,000 people, mostly children, die from malaria. Tanzania's Ifakara Health Institute has begun to develop a device that may help prevent malaria deaths in the developing world using the odor of smelly socks.

In the Media by KJ Mullins

Google using search terms to track Dengue fever outbreaks

Taking a page from its Flu Trends offering, Google has begun using search terminology to monitor outbreaks of Dengue fever, a particularly nasty mosquito-born virus that impacts populated tropical areas worldwide.

In the Media by Michael Krebs

Genetically modified mosquitoes released to combat dengue

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian scientists have released genetically modified male mosquitoes in Bentong, Pahang, without public approval, in an experiment to fight dengue fever in an uninhabited forested area.

In the Media by Kim I. Hartman - 1 comment

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