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Certain insect-specific viruses (ISVs), specifically the mosquito alphaviruses, Eilat and Yada Yada viruses, and orthoflaviviruses, Binjari, Aripo, YN15-283-02 and Chaoyang viruses, have emerged as ...

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Tiger mosquitoes - which can carry diseases such as dengue fever - have been spotted in all areas of France, and health authorities have advice for the public on how to stop their spread. The insects ...

Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects' more obscure targets—and how even a tiny ...

In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito ...

It was an experiment that was part “Outbreak” and part “Trading Places,” but researchers at Colorado State University hoped it might answer one of the more pressing public health questions ...

Regarding Culex mosquitoes, Dr Md Emdadul Hoque, health officer of DNCC, said they have strengthened anti-mosquito drives in areas from where complaints were received.

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