#mosquito virus

[quaranmine]

i don't have any plans this friday night do you think the city would let me drive the mosquito truck again

[macmanx]

To start with, if you have an empty pool that’s collected rainwater, drain it. Get rid of standing water in clogged rain gutters, rain barrels, buckets, flower pot saucers, or anything else on your property that’s holding standing water. Even turned-up bottle caps can host mosquito larvae. Change the water in pet bowls and bird baths often. If you see an unmaintained stagnant or “green” swimming pool, report it.

[maiamaiden]

i was so brave today i got 2 shots and a blood test 10 year old me would've exploded

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Im at another air port in between my home and our final destination

It’s long… the final flight is in 3 more hours…

And I’m sweaty

[bpod-bpod]

Muscling In

La Crosse virus (a leading cause of arthropod-borne viral encephalitis in children in North America) from an infected mosquito bite enters the body through cells of underlying muscle rather than the skin and their resistance to viral-induced death enables long-term, low-level release of virus

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Christine A. Schneider and colleagues

Laboratory of Neurological Infections and Immunity, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Communications, February 2024

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[dwindlebunnies]

I saw a pro-mosquito post and I prevented myself from interacting with it, you should be so proud of me.

[firefly-fez]

Say what you will about our universe, at least we live in a world where mosquitos can't transmit HIV.

[santaclaralocalnews]

The County of Santa Clara Vector Control District has confirmed the presence of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes in a portion of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara (ZIP codes 94085, 94086, 94087 and 95051). Weather permitting, this area will be treated to reduce adult mosquito populations with the use of truck-mounted equipment on Thursday, Sept. 12, starting around 10 p.m. and concluding two to four hours later. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[lunar-goodness]

“We plan to study these changes under different conditions, including environmental variations in the mosquito after virus infection,” she said. “The focus is on the mosquitos’ saliva, which is critical because, like with the parasite (Plasmodium) that causes malaria, arboviruses are transmitted through the saliva when the mosquito bites.”

Saraf and her team also will analyze saliva from a control group of mosquitoes not infected by the virus — but kept under the same feeding conditions and infection duration as the test group. The end goal is to identify specific proteins of interest for future host-vector-virus interaction studies, which could become potential targets for drug therapies.

The USDA has an interest in veterinary applications for the findings, but Saraf’s work could underpin therapies for people as well.

I wonder if the USDA is looking into new ways to treat heartworm.

[vaalgaendrum]

Yellow fever is a life-threatening disease

In humans, yellow fever can linger for three to six days, but the worst-case scenario is that it comes back within a day. Consult a doctor immediately

[immunobiz]

🇺🇸 Il y a les chemtrails partout et pendant ce temps à New York, États-Unis on vaporise à planche! « Veuillez rentrer immédiatement à l'intérieur jusqu'à ce que les camions soient passés. La dernière opération psychologique américaine consiste à s'attaquer aux moustiques pour lutter contre le virus du Nil occidental.

🇺🇸 There's chemtrails everywhere and meanwhile in New York, USA they're spraying planks! “Please return indoors immediately until the trucks have passed. The latest U.S. psychological operation involves attacking mosquitoes to combat the West Nile virus.

[bpod-bpod]

Mosquito Finito

Killing harmful insects with pesticides often threatens innocent life nearby, but a new method to tackle Culex pipiens mosquitos focuses on control rather than killing. Looking at how Culex sperm fertilise female eggs (pictured), a team of researchers used mass spectrometry to find proteins that help the sperm’s tail – its flagellum – to waggle its way towards the egg. Developing treatments to block these proteins leaves the Culex alive but infertile, reducing the spread diseases like West Nile virus. It’s likely that other mosquito species have similar sperm-powering proteins such as those that carry malaria, and these may be tackled too. The insects may even yield clues to how similar proteins work in human fertility, giving answers to how struggling sperm can be helped rather than hindered.

Written by John Ankers

Image from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Research by Catherine D. Thaler et al, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

Image in the Public Domain

Research published in PLOS ONE, February 2023

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