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Tag: Zika
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What makes us attractive to mosquitos?
Mosquitoes locate a potential host through different sensory cues, such as your body temperature and the carbon dioxide emitted from your breath.
July 6, 2022 -
Centre gears up as zika detected in Kanpur
Concern was also raised with the government on a new Covid-19 variant Delta Plus AY.4.2, which after killing thousands of people in many countries, is said to have been detected in India.
October 26, 2021 -
Virulent Virus
The resurgence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in the 21st century (SARS, bird flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika, Nipah and COVID-19) has turned the spotlight on animals and insects and vectors of infectious diseases as epidemic villains. Rightly are they regarded as the incubators of the existential risk for humanity.
February 26, 2020 -
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals in the world. Their ability to carry and spread the disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year
July 28, 2019 -
Decoded: How Zika virus infects developing brain
In the brain, these microglia will become resident macrophages whose job is to constantly clear away plaques, damaged cells and infectious agents.
October 28, 2017 -
Zika virus may help fight brain cancer
While Zika virus is known to cause devastating damage to the brains of developing foetuses, it might one day help in the treatment against a deadly form of brain cancer, researchers claim. The findings showed that Zika virus kills stem cells — the kind of cells most resistant to standard treatments of glioblastoma, which is...
September 6, 2017 -
Zika may not spread by kissing
Casual contact like kissing or sharing a fork or spoon does not increase the risk of transmission of Zika virus as the infection may not spread through saliva, US researchers have found. Scientists believe that mosquito bites are the source of most Zika virus infections in people. After infection, the Zika virus is present in...
August 3, 2017 -
Spanish scientists discover potential anti-Zika drug
Researchers from a southeastern Spanish university announced the discovery of a molecule that could be used as a potential drug to fight the effects of a Zika virus infection. In a statement on Saturday, the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) said that scientists belonging to its prestigious Bioinformatics and High-Performance Computing research group...
July 22, 2017 -
New Zika vaccine may protect unborn baby from birth defects
An experimental Zika vaccine administered during pregnancy may protect the unborn baby from infection and birth defects, scientists have found. Although rapid and promising progress on developing vaccines has been made with animal models, the study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the US is the first to demonstrate that potential...
July 14, 2017 -
11 Zika cases reported in Thailand
Eleven people in Thailand's Phichit province have been tested positive for the Zika virus while 27 others were being monitored, a top official said on Tuesday. Phichit Governor Wirasak Wichitsaengsi said laboratory test results had confirmed that there were 11 infections and they were all being treated, reports Xinhua news agency. Health officials have sent...
July 4, 2017 -
Native Australian plants could be key to Zika cure
A team of researchers in Australia on Friday announced the discovery of a native plant that has the capability to cure Zika virus. The lead researcher on the project, Trudi Collet, senior lecturer in pharmacy at the Queensland University of Technology, told Xinhua news agency that they may have discovered a way to stop the...
June 2, 2017 -
Zika mosquito may transmit dengue with one bite
The primary mosquito that spreads Zika virus — aedes aegypti — might also simultaneously transmit chikungunya and dengue viruses with a single bite, says a study that sheds new light on co-infection. "A mosquito, in theory, could give you multiple viruses at once," said Claudia Ruckert, post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University in the US. ...
May 19, 2017 -
Compound that prevents spread of Zika identified
In a step toward a drug to treat Zika infections, researchers have discovered a compound that prevents the virus from spreading. The compound could serve as basis for drugs to prevent neurological complications of Zika. "We identified a small molecule that inhibits the Zika virus protease, and show that it blocks viral propagation in human...
May 17, 2017 -
Brazil officially declares Zika emergency over
Brazil has declared an end to a national emergency over the Zika virus after a sharp decrease in cases, the media reported on Friday. The number of cases dropped 95 per cent between January and April, compared to the same period a year ago, the BBC quoted Health Ministry officials as saying in a statement....
May 12, 2017 -
India vulnerable to infectious diseases like Zika, Ebola
South Asian nations including India are “vulnerable” to emerging infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola and their level of preparedness is “inadequate” to protect public health, a new analysis on Wednesday said. Inadequate surveillance and uneven health system capacity may accelerate the spread of the emerging infectious diseases in the region, which is already burdened by...
April 12, 2017 -
Smartphone app to detect Zika, dengue in 30 minutes
Researchers including one of Indian origin have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that costs as little as $100 and claims to detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. The device, developed by the team at Sandia National Labs, part of the US Department of Energy, is based on the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) diagnostic...
March 21, 2017 -
Smartphone app to detect Zika, dengue in 30 minutes
Researchers including one of Indian origin have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that costs as little as $100 and claims to detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. The device, developed by the team at Sandia National Labs, part of the US Department of Energy, is based on the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) diagnostic...
March 21, 2017
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