Sentences with phrase «humans by infected mosquitoes»

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.

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When a human host is bitten by an infected mosquito, the parasite (Plasmodium) enters the blood and lays inactive in the liver.

West Nile is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes that have bitten infected birds.

Benzoquinoline was also effective against vesicular stomatitis virus from the rhabdovirus family, which can infect insects, cattle, horses and pigs, and Zika virus, which is spread to humans by mosquitoes.

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

HIV - infected humans actually have very few virus particles in their bloodstream, and should a mosquito suck one up, it gets killed by the mosquito's digestive system.

West Nile virus has wreaked havoc mostly on bird populations, but humans and a variety of other animals can become infected as well when bitten by a mosquito that previously dined on an infected bird.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

When an infected female mosquito bites a human, the microbe enters the victim's bloodstream and makes for the liver, where it multiplies by the tens of thousands.

About a week after the P. falciparum parasite is injected by a mosquito into a human body, it attaches to and infects the red blood cells.

It is transmitted by mosquitoes — which feed on infected birds or other animals — to horses, humans and other mammals.

For instance, an infected horse can not pass West Nile virus to a human, but the horse and the human might be infected with the virus by the same mosquito.

Humans can potentially get infected if they are bitten by a mosquito that is carrying heartworm.

Just as in humans, following a bite by an infected mosquito, the West Nile virus multiplies in the horse's blood system, and crosses into the brain, where it infects the brain, causing inflammation and interference with the central nervous system.