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Insecticides and mosquito nets only get you so far. Synthetic biologists are ready to take the battle against mosquito-borne disease to the level of DNA – which might spell the insects’ ultimate doom.
They spread disease and misery and account for millions of deaths every year. There’s not a lot to be said for mosquitoes.
A professor of economics reflects on other outbreaks to get to grips with the likely impacts of Zika.
Models based on where the mosquitoes that transmit Zika are found and human travel patterns to and from infected areas are key to predicting where the virus will spread.
Overnight, World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan declared the outbreak of Zika virus a public health emergency. So what does this mean?
As Zika fear rises, people are inevitably asking why we don’t have a vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne virus.
Some have criticised the idea of birth control to counter small heads in babies thought to be linked to Zika virus but it’s an opportunity.
Love, sex and babies are the foundation of human existence. Without them the human race ceases to exist. Zika has suddenly disrupted this normal course of events.
Zika was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil?
They’re small, spindly insects but their threat never dwindles – the bites of mosquitoes threaten death and disease in many parts of the world.
Could this relatively unknown virus become a household name in the Americas in the year to come?
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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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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Epidemiologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Professor of Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
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Professor in Developmental Biology, University of Aberdeen
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Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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PhD candidate, Yale University
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Emeritus Professor of Parasitology, Keele University