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Woman wakes up with mosquito bite on her arms, later experiences organ failure; know the dangers of bug bites
A woman in South Africa believed that she had a harmless mosquito bite, but within two days, her health started deteriorating ...
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'I was bitten by an insect in my sleep, and lost my fingers and toes'
Cathrine Abbott-Coetzee woke up one morning with a bite on her arm – which she assumed was from a relatively harmless ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation17d
Mosquito-borne dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis detected in Queensland
An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes with "toxic" semen could kill females and curb spread of disease, researchers say
The mosquito has killed as many as 50 billion people over the course of human existence. Mosquitoes are responsible for millions of yearly deaths worldwide from malaria, dengue fever and other ...
New Atlas25d
Genetic tweak weaponizes mosquito semen for population control
That's part of a new mosquito population control method set to be trialed by Macquarie University researchers looking to curb the spread of diseases carried by these insects. Talk about drastic ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation26d
'Toxic male technique' could reduce female mosquito population by poisoning them during sex
A new study by Macquarie University researchers has suggested that the toxic male technique could be used to address the prevalence of mosquito-borne illness. The scientists, which genetically ...