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Look beyond transgenic techniques that add new genes to a species. People have used selective breeding techniques to change plants and animals for millennia – why not try them on mosquitoes?
The world’s scientific community is focused on how to improve detection and responses to emerging diseases such as Zika virus and Ebola. So what can we learn from the most recent large-scale outbreaks?
Recent reports propose a connection between Zika infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).
New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
To tackle Zika and other viral outbreaks, we need to focus not only on the pathology of the disease, but also on the global political and economic architecture.
Zika virus may be in the headlines but the burden of other mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever, should not be overlooked.
Better access to birth control and safe, legal abortions in Latin America could save lives. But carving out Zika-related exceptions in existing restrictions might not go far enough to achieve this.
How does an institution like the World Bank come to put a price tag on a virus like Zika or any other health calamity?
Aedes aegypti is adapted to live in close proximity with humans, and this close association likely contributes to the severity of the Zika outbreak.
Do the countries affected by Zika have the capacity to deal with a baby boom if pregnancies are delayed?
Globalisation has ensured that pandemics are a fact of life, but are we learning from past mistakes?
Satellite imaging can locate mosquito-friendly environments, allowing us to predict the advance of diseases they carry.
Despite all the hype around Zika, crucial questions remain unanswered. How great is the risk that infection during pregnancy would result in a baby with microcephaly? And what can be done to prevent this?
The Catholic church must recognise its teachings are out of step with reality if ZIka is to be prevented from taking hold in Latin America.
Zika virus and microcephaly are firmly linked, but scientists are still trying to prove that it has caused the condition.
Despite high rates of infection, the Zika outbreak would not have been particularly alarming had it not been for the sudden and – apparently associated – increase in the numbers of infants born with microcephaly.
New study maps the spread of ‘deformed wing virus’ – and it follows patterns of human trade.
You might have heard the term flavivirus recently due to the outbreak of Zika virus. Zika, along with West Nile virus, dengue, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, belong to this family of virus.
Brazil faces an uphill struggle with Zika – here’s what’s happening on the ground already.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Project Manager; Centre for Advanced Training Systems, University of Newcastle
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Dean Students, College of Health, Adelaide University
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Lecturer (University of Tasmania), University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer, University of York
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Boswell Distinguished Professor of Global Health, DePauw University