Showing posts with label mosquitoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mosquitoes. Show all posts
Friday, September 02, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
More than 150 killed in Angola yellow fever outbreak
Ετικέτες
Angola,
deaths,
diseases,
epidemic outbreak,
mosquito-transmitted,
mosquitoes,
Oil,
prices,
victims,
WHO,
yellow fever
Τόπος:
Luanda, Angola
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Cuba to deploy 9,000 troops to prevent Zika virus
Ετικέτες
airport,
Cuba,
health,
Latin America,
mosquitoes,
troops,
Zika Virus
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Friday, December 07, 2012
Florida scientists prepare to release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes
Hundreds of thousands of mutated mosquitoes could soon be unleashed
in Florida, but don’t worry: scientists say they have a plan.
It might sound like something out of a low-budget horror film, but the US Food and Drug Administration really is considering whether or not they should allow scientists to send thousands upon thousands of genetically altered insects into the wild.
If all goes as planned, mosquitos modified by some serious Frankenstein treatment will be introduced into the Florida Keys and ideally mate with skeeters that carry the deadly dengue fever, passing along in the process a fatal birth defect that will hopefully eradicate the offspring before birth. From there, scientists say they expect the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the dangerous disease will be decimated in only a few generations without causing any major implications for the native ecosystem.
It might sound like something out of a low-budget horror film, but the US Food and Drug Administration really is considering whether or not they should allow scientists to send thousands upon thousands of genetically altered insects into the wild.
If all goes as planned, mosquitos modified by some serious Frankenstein treatment will be introduced into the Florida Keys and ideally mate with skeeters that carry the deadly dengue fever, passing along in the process a fatal birth defect that will hopefully eradicate the offspring before birth. From there, scientists say they expect the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the dangerous disease will be decimated in only a few generations without causing any major implications for the native ecosystem.
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