Sentences with phrase «from avian malaria»

These relations to the common mosquito live in the tropics and subtropics and transmit diseases dangerous to humans and animals from avian malaria to the West Nile virus.

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Scientists can also help by developing genetically modified mosquitoes and figuring out why honeycreepers are so susceptible to avian malaria — and how to protect them from it, James notes.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

In a nightmarish incident on Maui in the 1820s, an American ship arriving from Mexico dumped water contaminated with larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus, the mosquito that carries avian pox and malaria.

Target Stakeholders If we were able to eliminate mosquitoes, the following stakeholder would benefit from successful suppression or elimination of C. quinquefasciatus in Hawaii: 1) Hawaiian public: C. quinquefasciatus is not only a vector of avian malaria but could be a vector of human diseases such as West Nile Virus should it ever be introduced into Hawaii.

Louis's Robert Ricklefs first studied this relationship in the early 1990s, using data from microscopic examination of avian blood samples for the presence of parasites, primarily those that cause malaria.