I wrote before about some of the newer mosquito trap-and-kill technology–the main brand in the US is called Mosquito Magnet. It attracts biting insects with a combination of CO2 and other odors that mimic human smells.
A new paper out in Malaria Journal compares a couple of brands of these trap-and-kill traps for use in the [...]
Several new papers in the open-access journal Malaria discuss the thorny problem of insecticide resistance. I’ll give you the paper citations, abstract summaries, and a (mostly) non-technical translation in this post.
The monitoring of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors is very important to assess *potential* selection effects of insecticides, and to plan for the next step [...]
Yeah. What he said:
“The war against malaria in tropical countries was fought and lost in the 20th Century on the basis of faulty intelligence, a ‘dodgy dossier’ which argued that the same methods used to tackle the disease in temperate countries would also work in the tropics.
Eradication failed in almost every tropical and sub-tropical country, [...]
Tulane is offering a free web course: “Vectors of Disease in Disasters“.
“The course not only covers the description of the principal vectors encountered in times of disasters, such as the typical species of rats, mosquitoes, and flies, but also how to easily identify between the species by common methods employed in the loss of usual [...]
If you haven’t heard of Dr. Boli…well, he’s rather hard to explain. Sort of a Victorian-era Monty Python?
He recently explained how homeopathic malaria remedies are prepared:
“As mosquitoes are the primary cause of malaria, homoeopathic remedies and preventatives for malaria are naturally made from mosquitoes in highly diluted form. One or two mosquitoes suffice to produce [...]
(Actually, World Malaria Day 2008 was yesterday; I just got involved in some stuff that kept me from posting this until today.)
“World Malaria Day is an opportunity for malaria-free countries to learn about the devastating consequences of the disease and for new donors to join a global partnership against malaria. It is an occasion for [...]
So many cool things on the web right now!
Zooilogix has an interview with Justin Schmidt, the originator of the Schmidt pain index.
Ugly Overload reports on a new species of tick spider. (it isn’t really a true spider, or a true tick. It’s one of these.) They also have some very beautiful photos of a [...]
Wag of the antennae to Millard Fillmore for finding this:
Eugene Kenaga International DDT Conference on Environment and Health
DDT: What We Know; What Do We Need to Know?
On March 14, 2008, Alma College, in Alma, Mich., is hosting a conference examining what is known about the impact of DDT on human health and the environment.
I am [...]
Two papers came out in the last couple of weeks that concern malaria and mosquitoes. In the first paper, the role of bromeliads as a breeding site for vectors of malaria in South America was examined. A nice example of basic biology and life history work contributing to understanding of human disease.
The second paper [...]
in a “Perspectives” article in Environmental Science and Technology. Regrettably, the primary entomologist they talked to was Donald Roberts, who is about as Pro-DDT as you can get. Although Roberts is quoted heavily, as a whole the article contains reasonable information:
“Rick Steketee, director of science for the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, a [...]
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