PhysOrg has a report on a genetically modified fungus that is capable, if released into the wild, of using spider venom to eliminate the mosquitoes that carry one of the nastiest diseases… Read the rest “A genetically weaponized fungus is getting used against malaria.”
Science News tracks the new outbreak of a disease we’d formally “eliminated”:
… Read the rest “U.S. measles outbreak keeps breaking….”The viral disease has sickened at least 555 people in 20 states, according to numbers
Science revisits one of my childhood nightmares (one of many blessings from frequent family visits to South Africa) with news of researchers infecting volunteers with what my aunts called… Read the rest “So these folks infect themselves with this parasitic worm to figure out how to cure this disease….”
The American Council on Health and Social Science looks at the epidemiology of human behavior – and things we want to believe – by finding what riots, flu and “fake news”… Read the rest “Riots spread like viruses spread like “fake news.””
Science Daily makes a fact-based plea to keep sparrows in the dark – because nighttime lighting makes the birds stay sick with West Nile – and contagious – about twice… Read the rest “Light pollution helps West Nile virus spread. (Go figure.)”
Popular Science checks the dental records to get to the cause of a mysterious sickness that killed up to 15 million people in only three years:
… Read the rest “500-year-old teeth reveal an unimaginably deadly epidemic.”Red spots appeared on the skin, accompanied
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.”The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society Islands — a part of French Polynesia that
Science reports on a group of researchers who recreated an extinct cousin of smallpox – one of the deadliest and most-weaponized diseases on Earth – by using simple techniques… Read the rest “Recreating deadly diseases with mail-order DNA: Here’s how.”
Sounds almost medieval, doesn’t it? But no, it’s not the vapors. BBC shows how dormant viruses and bacteria are waking up after centuries or even millennia under the ice:
… Read the rest “Melting permafrost is releasing ancient diseases.”In
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically modified anti-Zika mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.”On Tuesday,
FiveThirtyEight Science has an in-depth article on a genetic reponse to the Zika threat and the scientific stakes of ballots cast in Florida’s southernmost county:
… Read the rest “Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.”This unusual
NPR reports that the mosquito-borne illness is probably here to stay:
… Read the rest “Zika is an American disease now.”So far, local officials in Miami have successfully cleared just one zone of local Zika transmission — the Wynwood neighborhood.
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself:
… Read the rest “A new way to catch Zika.”Until now, scientists have said that Zika is spread primarily through the bite
Nature goes out to the country to track the spread of TB (an unpleasant and expensive disease) by looking at how badgers meet cows… or really really don’t:
… Read the rest “Scientists track elusive badger-cow encounters.”Since 2013, the UK’s
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