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Illinois Natural History Survey medical entomologist Gabriel Yan peers through a viewing port as he safely works inside a glove box, using tongs to carefully handle blood-engorged Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, better known as the yellow fever mosquito which spread several viruses and other diseases across temperate regions throughout the world. Working in the Arthropod Containment Lab of the Medical Entomology Laboratory, the study looks to see the impact of infecting mosquitoes with live dengue virus via a blood meal in order to understand how nutritional stress affects their ability to transmit disease.
Photo taken at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024.
(Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Feast or famine: the surprising link between mosquito nutrition and disease transmission

Hungry mosquitoes apparently make for better vectors of disease.

Dengue vaccine candidate looks promising in Phase 3 Trial

byMelvin Sanicas

February 7, 2019 - Updated on May 5, 2020

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that causes flu-like symptoms but can be lethal and kill up to 20% of those ...

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WHO endorses first Dengue Fever vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially endorsed the world's first Dengue fever vaccine, a disease that infects 390 million ...

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