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Why tech giant Google is planning to release 32,00,00,000 mosquitoes in the USGoogle's parent company, Alphabet, plans to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida. This initiative aims...- How to get rid of lizards without killing them: Simple home remedies that workLizards are beneficial visitors, helping control insect populations. Instead of removal, focus on making homes less attractive to them. Sim...
- This tiny spider uses city lights to become an efficient urban predatorA minuscule spider, Pikelinia floydmuraria, is revolutionizing predator behavior studies by hunting prey significantly larger than itself. ...
- Why mosquitoes bite some people more and easy prevention tipsMosquitoes, particularly Aedes aegypti, are drawn to humans by a combination of visual cues like dark colours and chemical signals such as ...
- Why Are There Almost No Mosquitoes at Disney World? The Science Behind ItWalt Disney World employs a sophisticated environmental engineering strategy to combat mosquitoes, focusing on preventing breeding by manag...
- Las Vegas, famous for casinos and nightlife, is now swarming with mosquitoes — here are the grave consequences Sin City facesLas Vegas is experiencing a significant increase in mosquitoes, including those species capable of spreading West Nile virus and dengue. Ur...
- Chikungunya outbreak in China: Is this the dawn of a new medical era? Here’s how China is fighting back with drones, AI, and lab-grown mosquitoesChikungunya virus outbreak in China has triggered alarm as over 7,000 people fall ill in Guangdong, marking the country’s biggest mosquito-...
- Chandipura Virus Spreads in Gujarat: Symptoms, precautions, treatments, and all you need to know about the deadly virusChandipura Virus (Google Trends): The Chandipura virus has raised concerns in Gujarat's Aravalli district, with six deaths reported, though...
- Transforming mosquitoes from foes to friends in the battle against dengue fever; Everything explainedIn Honduras, where 10,000 people are known to be sickened by dengue each year, Doctors Without Borders is partnering with the mosquito prog...
- Super-resistant mosquitoes in Asia pose growing threat: studyHealth authorities commonly fog mosquito-infested areas with clouds of insecticide, and resistance has long been a concern, but the scale o...
- Artificial light may aid in controlling malaria, likely to alter mosquito biologyThe use of artificial lights can trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it's daytime.
- Would you choose becoming invisible to mosquitoes as your one superpower, if you had the chance?For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 to render humans effectively invisible in the eyes of Aedes aegy...
- 72 Zika cases detected in Jaipur; Centre asks states to intensify vector control stepsZika is caused by aedes aegypti mosquito which also transmits dengue and chikungunya and breeds in open stagnant water.
- Zika virus cases in Rajasthan rise to 55Fogging and other anti-larvae activities are being carried out in the Shastri Nagar area to prevent the spread of the virus.
- India, Australia university to work on trials on novel dengue-control methodAs part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed here between ICMR and Monash University, the efficacy of the disease-control method will be...
- India yet to adopt WHO blueprint for epidemic-prone diseasesElaborating further, the minister said last year, 11,26,661 (provisional) malaria cases were reported while 99,913 dengue cases were report...
- Malaria costs India Rs 11,640 crore yearly, dengue Rs 6,000 crore: WHOEstimates of the UN agency show incidence of dengue alone has risen 30-fold worldwide over the last few decades resulting in a huge socio-e...
- Health ministry issues guidelines to prevent Zika outbreakThe intensified efforts of the government follow the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring Zika an international public health emergenc...
- Scientists track genetic race between humans and mosquitoesThe study suggests that understanding the genomes of these populations could help inform agencies which pesticides are likely to be most ef...
- New way to prevent dengue fever foundDengue is a viral infection spread between humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue causes flu-like symptoms, including intense headaches...
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