Archive for the ‘Chikungunya’ Category
The Pan American Health Organization: 10,662 new cases of chikungunya in the Americas, bringing the 2016 outbreak total to 54,286 confirmed and suspected cases.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported 2,508 new cases of chikungunya in the Americas, bringing the 2016 outbreak total to 43,624 confirmed and suspected cases.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
4,587 new cases of chikungunya in the Americas over a 2-week span, bringing the 2016 outbreak total to 41,116 confirmed and suspected cases.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Group from Argentina developes a plastic ovitrap, a small cup made from low-density polyethylene that has been infused with pyriproxyfen to knock off Aedes mosquitoes
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
Brazil: Zika isn’t the only emergency. 2 other mosquito-borne viruses are spiking: Dengue and CHIKV. Meanwhile, the country is going through a massive economic and political crisis as well, facing one of the worst recessions in its history.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016Recife: “….New cases of microcephaly are dramatically down. Last November, Recife registered 125 cases. But since the beginning of this year, the numbers have hovered around 25 a month……[T]he decline was expected: Women giving birth this spring would have become pregnant during the cooler winter period when there were fewer mosquitoes around to transmit Zika……”
Zika is just one of a growing number of continent-jumping diseases carried by mosquitoes and threatening swathes of humanity.
Sunday, March 13th, 2016
The Aedes mosquitoes that transmit the virus on Puerto Rico have developed resistance to permethrin.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
PAHO: Countries and territories in the Americas reported 1,804 new chikungunya cases
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016Colombia is said to have made progress on what could be an innovative way of controlling the disease. A tropical disease specialist at the University of Antioquia states scientists there had successfully bred a mosquito that was resistant to Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
Friday, February 19th, 2016
“…..To create the strain, Dr. Vélez infected mosquitoes with bacteria that block the insects from picking up the virus. When the mosquitoes breed with ones that are susceptible to the disease, their progeny are shielded.
“The results are encouraging,” Dr. Vélez said, citing a recent pilot project near Medellín in which 80 percent of mosquitoes were rendered unable to transmit Zika…….”