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🌿🦟 New paper out !
We investigated how urban vegetation and other environmental factors shape the presence and abundance of Aedes albopictus in Montpellier — the second greenest city in France. 🧪 🌐
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335793

#UrbanEcology #Mosquitoes #AedesAlbopictus #PublicHealth #UrbanGreening #Dengue #VectorBiology

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Nicolas Moiroux Nov 7

📸 Huge thanks to Nil Rahola and Luciano Mucci for their outstanding macrophotography work.
🔗 All publications are freely available on Zenodo.

#Entomology #Mosquitoes #Culicidae #Anopheles #Toxorhynchites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #VectorBiology #Zenodo #Research #Afrotropical

GBIF 🌱Sep 20, 2024

⭐ Looking to 🧢 cap-tivate your colleagues at #ICTMM2024 with the best merch in town?

Come along to the GBIF booth (S2) this afternoon at 15:30 to chat all things #VectorBiology with Scott, Paloma & Lily! 🏆 The first 5 at our booth will score a GBIF cap!

SPQR May 5, 2024

Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

Dengue fever is surging in Latin America

The number of people who succumb to the disease has been rising for two decades

The Economist

SPQR Apr 18, 2024

The Chinese team launched a search for microbes that, like Wolbachia, might help control the disease from within the mosquito. They focused on Yunnan province, parts of which are infested with Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus), a species that can transmit dengue and Zika viruses.
#Virology #VectorBiology #Science #Bacteria #pathology #PublicHealth #biocontrol
https://www.science.org/content/article/bacteria-found-mosquito-guts-could-help-scientists-fight-dengue-zika

SPQR Sep 9, 2023

The coming collapse: "“I had no idea what miseries this flood would bring for us,” said Yaqoob, whose village is in Sindh, the hardest hit province in a disaster that left a third of the country underwater." #VectorBiology #collapse #pathology #epidemiology #climatechange #climateemergency #climatecrisis #FailedState #disease #sanitation #hygiene #healthcare https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/pakistan-extreme-heat-health-impacts-death/

Pakistan bears the brunt of global extreme heat illness and mortality

Climate-fueled disease — tied to heat, pathogens and toxins — is an emerging, lethal threat that countries are ill-prepared to confront. The Post visited ground zero for this new era, Pakistan, to see what the future holds.

The Washington Post

SPQR Aug 29, 2023

"The patients came here with fever and also with pain in their joints," says Dr. Susana Lloveras, an infectious disease physician at Hospital Muñiz in Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of several South American countries where the mosquito-borne virus has surged in 2023. The joints in their hands and feet commonly ache along with their knees. #PublicHealth #virology #pathology #InfectiousDiseases #VectorBiology https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/18/1194392519/chikungunya-virus-surges-in-south-america-but-a-new-discovery-could-help-outfox

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SPQR Jul 9, 2023

"The wildfires in Canada, the orange Blade Runner skies on the East Coast, the hot ocean, the rapidly melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica and the Himalayas, the high price of food, the spread of vector-borne diseases in unexpected places — it is all connected, and it is all driven by rising heat." #ClimateCrisis #climatechange #collapse #ecology #environmentalism #vectorbiology #mortality #morbidity 2/2

Open Science Vids Apr 29, 2022

Fighting Malaria: The Genetic Make-Up of Mosquitoes

https://tilvids.com/w/fQPL1MmRvWVDiDDnTNCgA7

Fighting Malaria: The Genetic Make-Up of Mosquitoes

PeerTube