Sentences with phrase «by mosquitos of»

Zika is spread by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, which can breed in a tiny pool of water and usually bite during the day.

malaria endemic or epidemic parasitic disease caused by species of the genus Plasmodium (protozoa) and transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Auopheles; produces high fever attacks and systemic disorders, and kills ~ 2 million people every year

Malaria - Endemic or epidemic parasitic disease caused by species of the genus Plasmodium (Protozoa) and transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles; produces bouts of high fever and systemic disorders, affects about 300 million and kills approximately 2 million people worldwide every year.

Not exact matches

So, any pathogen and parasite that can be transmitted by a mosquito has to make it through a lot of barriers.

If anything, genetically modified mosquitoes will actually help us prevent Zika from spreading by reducing the number of mosquitoes flying around.

Cases of tick - and mosquito - borne diseases more than triple since 2004, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Zika virus, which is mainly transmitted by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas and parts of Asia over the past year.

But officials are now dealing with a fresh problem: evidence of active transmission by mosquitoes in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami.

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

Cases of Americans infected by diseases from tick, flea, and mosquito bites tripled between 2004 and 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Cases of tick - and mosquito - borne diseases more than triple since 2004, according to a new study by the CDC.

About 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated cities.

There are reasons why the illness, spread by a few dozen species of female Anopheles mosquito, persists in tropical regions of the world.

Reports in the Chinese press claimed they were put there by a local electronics company for testing purposes, but Chinese netizens were still worried — «From every angle, no blind side, it is capable of distinguish male from female mosquito!»

What an American doctor trained on the mainland might see as a case of the flu could actually be Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

But in the pools of water that are left behind by the storms, mosquito populations can quickly reestablish themselves — and again threaten transmission of those viruses.

«If the mosquito transmission cycle gets knocked down by the storms and has to re-amplify, there may not be enough time after October,» said Scott Weaver, director of University of Texas Medical Branch's Institute for Human Infections and Immunity.

But there's some good news here: Storms aren't always followed by increased transmission of mosquito - borne diseases, and we're nearing the end of transmission season in the US, with the weather cooling down in time for winter.

-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

«But Charles Darwin showed how it is possible for blind physical forces to mimic the effects of conscious design, and, by operating as a cumulative filter of chance variations, to lead eventually to organized and adaptive complexity, to mosquitoes and mammoths, to humans and therefore, indirectly, to books and computers.

For elementary school children the game is primarily physical, kinetic; but to older children I read my poem «Plaint of the Summer Vampires,» which pretends to be a lament voiced by a mosquito and a deerfly.

I would like to stay around for the speaking in tongues, should it occur, but the mosquitoes, worked into a frenzy by all this talk of His blood, are launching a full - scale attack.

The facts are that Lord Carnarvon was stung by a mosquito not there, but at another site, that the wound became infected and that he died some five months later, at the end of twenty years of invalidism, at the age of fifty - seven.

Already the country falls prey to new threats — when I was last there a plague of mosquitoes was spreading dengue fever, relatively new to the country but estimated by the World Health Organization to he the great emergent disease of this century as growing warmth and moisture expand the range of Aedes egyptii, the mosquito in question.

If intrinsic value is «measured» by richness of experience, it follows that creatures such as primates and whales have more intrinsic value than worms and mosquitoes.

I idealized my marriage as, in the words of playwright Robert Anderson, «a picnic without mosquitoes» («Notes of a Survivor» in The Patient, Death and the Family, edited by Stanley B. Troup and William A. Greene [Scribner's, 1974], p. 82).

I love the idea of camping but sleeping on the floor, being bitten by mosquitos and having no plumbing are things that kill the mood.

When you are being plagued by bugs like mosquitoes, there will be plenty of us looking up pest control in New Orleans, or wherever you happen to be, so that you can enjoy your day in the garden without any problems.

Of course it is not like I can tell you I scoped a mosquito and saw that it was repelled by the spray but I can tell you what I have noticed.

If they are bitten by a mosquito, a dab of tea tree oil treats the sting and prevents the itch.

While most of us love Summer and the evenings outside, mosquitoes are an unfortunate by - product of such balmy weather.

Coming with a mosquito net covering the pram also maintain the health of your twin and protect them from the harmful diseases caused by the mosquitoes.

Zika is a virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito and was first discovered in 1947 in the Zika forest of Uganda.

The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

An «imminent threat to public health» was declared in Suffolk County by the state Department of Health after the discovery of mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare but potentially fatal pathogen.

Speaking at the campaign launch of the deputy Central regional minister and parliamentary candidate for the Agona East Constituency, Queenstar Pokuaa Sawyer, Mr. Asiedu Nketia popularly known as «General Mosquito» alleged that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have hatched a plan to embarrass the vice president by winning more seats in the Central region to send a message to Ghanaians that the vice president is not popular and influential even in his own region.

The Suffolk Legislature is to decide on the methods used by the Department of Public Works to reduce the number of mosquitoes in Accabonac Harbor and elsewhere.

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, Mr Johnson Asiedu - Nketiah affectionately known in the Ghanaian political circles as «General Mosquito» has dismissed claims by one of his deputies incharge of administration, Koku Anyidoho that he will not seek re-election as General Secretary when the party opens nominations for the next executive contest to run its affairs for election 2020.

The Zika virus is spread by the bite of a specific mosquito and can not be by casual spread person - to - person contact.

ROCKLAND COUNTY: Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

Their proscribing of IPOB, without condemning the Nigerian military's Python dance that led to the inhuman torture and killing of their youths like mosquitoes and their support for the senseless tagging of IPOB as terrorist group by President Buhari's APC government differentiates them from you.

This season's first batch of mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus in Westchester has been confirmed by the Westchester County Department of Health.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

Brazil has been the hardest hit country by the mosquito - borne virus, with 1.5 million cases of active Zika transmission.

The plan focuses on stopping the spread of that type of mosquito while providing services to those who may be impacted by the virus.

The virus is spread through either sexual contact or by a specific strain of mosquito, which Zucker says makes up about three to five percent of mosquitoes in New York.

Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

WASHINGTON - A recently - released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the number of people getting diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States between 2004 and... [Read more...]