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• Global warming leads to rise in malaria on Mount Kenya

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, December 31 (ANI): A British-funded research team has found that global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya.According to a report in The Times, a 2 degree Celsius increase in average temperatures around the mountain in the past 20 years has allowed the ...
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• Using Mosquitoes to ‘Smartbomb’ Breeding Grounds

  
  Cheshire — Authority: 115
  So let’s continue the theme of the AWESOME papers I ran across this semester and didn’t get to blog about. I find every aspect of this paper to be simply cool. There’s also something which kind of ground my gears a bit, but I’ll get to that later if I have time this week. Controlling mosquitoes consists of ...
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• Being ‘too sexy’ can be a curse

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 30 (ANI): In the world of fruit flies, being sexy can be a curse, especially for the ladies.A new research has shown that the most attractive female fruit flies are constantly harassed by mates, affecting their fertility.The harassment could lead to smaller families and affect fruit fly evolution, say ...
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• Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Having a cold on your birthday is even worse.

  
  TheBloggess.com — Authority: 118
  I feel bad for whoever said “ Dying is easy.  Comedy is hard ” because it was probably the thing he’s most famous for and he said it while he was on his deathbed so he totally never got any play out of it.  Unless whoever said it was someone already famous like Winston Churchill or something.  Then I feel ...
  2 days ago

• Do bats REALLY eat mosquitoes?

  
  Cheshire — Authority: 115
  One of the debates a lot of entomologists have is whether bats actually have an impact on mosquito populations. Sure, we hear all the time that bats eat mosquitoes, but there are good reasons to doubt this. I’ve had this discussion with instructors before and there’s really no consensus. We know bats ...
  3 days ago

• Drive-In Theaters are Back - Sorta

  
  Midlife Crisis| Midlife Crisis blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 117
  Perhaps youve seen this article in Saturdays Honolulu Advertiser : Aloha Stadium plans to bring drive-in movies back to Honolulu Facility aims to generate more revenue with films, which begin in February By Sean Hao Advertiser Staff Writer The drive-in movie is making a comeback in Hawaii, ...
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• Jellyfish Facts

  
  Beer Steak Bullshit — Authority: 436
  Let’s take a look at a few interesting jellyfish facts . Now, I know exactly what you’re thinking. You want to know why would I want to talk about jellyfish facts. To be honest, I’ve been really into this whole life below the surface of the sea lately and started working towards getting some scuba diving ...
  4 days ago

• Preventing Mosquitoes Bites

  
  SmartHealthForLife.com — Authority: 169
  So, you\’ve got some time off work, college or school and you want to get in the open air and enjoy it. Maybe even go on vacation. What a good idea! But what happens when you get where you are going? The mosquitoes come out to get you. If it were not so commonplace, it would sound like Freddy Kruger and Nightmare ...
  6 days ago

• Researchers find bacterium to trip malarial mosquitoes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Sydney, Dec 25 (IANS) Wolbachia, a bacterium from fruit flies, makes mosquitoes more resistant to infection by viruses, including those triggering dengue fever and Chikungunya, says a new research.Previous studies had shown that Wolbachia can halve the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes. Once infected with ...
  6 days ago

• Breakthrough in deadly tropical disease

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  QUEENSLAND researchers believe they have found a way to to control the spread of dengue fever, which afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide every year. The team at the University of Queenslands (UQ) School of Biological Sciences, led by Professor Scott ONeill, is investigating infecting mosquitoes that ...
  6 days ago

• What is the safest way to get rid of mosquitoes and flys? I have a 1 month old infant at home.?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  I live in Sydney. What is the safest way to get rid of mosquitoes and flys? I have a 1 month old infant at home and cant use pesticides, fumigants etc.. I also cant really leave the house and go away for the whole day.
  6 days ago

• Microbial ‘mosquito net’ to aid in fight against mosquito-borne disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): By finding a microbial ‘mosquito net’, scientists have made new progress in the fight against mosquito-borne disease like dengue fever and Chikungunya.Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a ...
  6 days ago

• How to control dengue fever spread

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Melbourne, December 25 (ANI): Researchers from University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Biological Sciences claim to found a way to control the spread of dengue fever.The disease afflicts more than 50 million people and kills more than 40,000 worldwide every year.However, a team led by Professor Scott O’Neill ...
  6 days ago

• Now a mobile that drives away mosquitoes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) You don’t need to carry mosquito repelling coils and creams to vacations anymore, your mobile handset can shoo the mosquitoes away.Micromax Informatics Limited (Micromax), a mobile handset manufacturer, launched a new phone with a mosquito repellent feature, in association with popular youth ...
  1 week ago

• Meddling in mosquitoes’ sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria, says study

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 123
  Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a ‘mating plug’ could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria, say scientists publishing new results in PLoS Biology on 22 December.The new study focuses on the species of mosquito primarily ...
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• New Malaria Strategy: No Mosquito Babies, No Problem

  
  80beats — Authority: 634
  Researchers from the Imperial College London have a new strategy to combat malaria. The species of mosquito responsible for the spread of malaria in Africa, Anopheles gambiae , only mates once during its life. Putting a stop to their one shot at reproduction should slow down malaria transmission. ...
  1 week ago

• Sex intervention combats malaria

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  Scientists believe it may be possible to combat malaria by interfering with the sex lives of the mosquitoes which spread the disease.
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• Sex intervention combats malaria

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 165
  Scientists believe it may be possible to combat malaria by interfering with the sex lives of the mosquitoes which spread the disease.
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• Nice girls finish drunk.

  
  TheBloggess.com — Authority: 118
  People always tell me I shouldn’t give money to homeless people because they’ll just buy booze with it and I understand that but I’ve been giving money to the homeless for years and if  we all stop giving hobos money then the liquor stores lose and that’s what causes a recession.  Then we’re all fucked. ...
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• Researchers use cell phone records to forecast malaria spread

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): Scientists from the University of Florida working over a malaria elimination study in Africa have broken new ground by using cell phone records to predict the spread of the disease.Researchers reviewed over 21million calls to find out how often the people of Zanzibar (a semi-autonomous part ...
  2 weeks ago

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