Disease spreading vectors like mosquitoes (malaria, dengue fever, filaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and etc), ticks, bugs, sand flies, snails and etc are also spotlighted by the WHO to make the world free from a wide range of diseases caused by parasites and pathogens. It provides better ...
Besides malaria, mosquitoes in the genera Anopheles, Aedes and Culex are also responsible for many other notorious vector-borne diseases — dengue, Zika, chikungunya, yellow fever, West Nile fever, Japanese encephalitis, and lymphatic filariasis to name a few. To honor the 2021 World Mosquito Day...
The date of this public holiday in South Africa, 16 December, had been an important day to white Afrikaner people. It had also been an important day to black people who had struggled for freedom against the apartheid government. It was therefore decided that this day would be renamed the ...
2024–now Latin America and the Caribbean Dengue virus 8,186 2024–now Democratic Republic of the Congo Malaria 143 The table also shows quite how hard life can be in the world of IPC as the organisms don’t stop because we are tired and need a break. In fact the world re-opening pos...
Mine was a combination of Dengue (blood count drop), Chikungunya (extreme pain in all joints), and Zika (itching all over, as if the bloody mosquitoes were eating up my flesh). Again, blood reports were-vefor all three, but symptoms screamed loudly of D+C+Z). I’d never been so ...
upon doing a blood test next day dengue was confirmed. I remember the killing 15 days that followed, the body pain and the platelet count dropping, the test everyday and in the end when I was fine, I still remember being tired and drained for months. Immunity down and catching cold at...
She’s modeled the spread of viruses like dengue, Zika and bird flu. Last year, Gardner predicted U.S. counties that could becomemeasles hotspotsbased on international air travel and non-medical exemptions from childhood immunizations, which she used as a marker of vaccine hesitancy i...
Dengue fever - mosquito-borne (Aedes aegypti) viral disease associated with urban environments; manifests as sudden onset of fever and severe headache; occasionally produces shock and hemorrhage leading to death in 5% of cases.Yellow fever - mosquito-borne viral disease; severity ranges from ...
], "watch": [ { "title": "Dengue in the Americas", "date": "March 17, 2020", "summary": "Dengue is a risk in many parts of Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Some countries are reporting increased numbers of cases of the disease. Travelers to the Americas can...
“I got bitten by a monkey/mosquito”. Sounds less frightening, less extreme. But what if that monkey transmits rabies and that mosquito carries dengue fever? The first example might not be as common, but this one is! Abroad, travelers take risks. There are so many dazzling bucklist activ...