"As Earth's climate changes, it will do far more than maroon polar bears amid melting ice," Dr. Epstein wrote in the introduction to his 2011 book "Changing Planet, Changing Health." He went on to link climate change with deadly heat waves and heavy rains, and explained how it is a driving force for the spread of malaria-carrying mosquitoes and shrinking supplies of clean water."
More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/paul-epstein-dead-public-health-environment-expert_n_1097777.html?show_comment_id=118653212#comment_118653212
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
MOSQUITO wins Points North Pitch at Camden Film Fest
We won the Points North Pitch! Check out the Indiewire article here. We were so thrilled to be included and learned a great deal from the process.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
"Brewing Up Double-Edged Delicacies for Mosquitoes"
Today's Science Times reports a simple idea that just might turn out to be pretty profound...
"On what food do mosquitoes live? Orgiastic gouts of human blood that distend their abdomens and render them almost unable to move — right?"...
NEW YORK TIMES
"On what food do mosquitoes live? Orgiastic gouts of human blood that distend their abdomens and render them almost unable to move — right?"...
NEW YORK TIMES
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Author Sonia Shah speaking in Pittsburgh
Chatham University to welcome journalist Sonia Shah, author of “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years,” to give free public lecture on Oct. 4th
http://www.chatham.edu/newsevents/story.cfm?ID=571
http://www.chatham.edu/newsevents/story.cfm?ID=571
Friday, September 9, 2011
"Spermless mosquitoes could help halt malaria spread"
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists said on Monday.
More at: SPERMLESS MOSQUITOES
Better You Than Me: Scientists Sicken Mosquitoes To Stop Dengue
Listen to the story!
"Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks.
The dengue virus causes a potentially fatal flu-like illness. The World Health Organization says the number of cases of dengue around the world is skyrocketing, and the disease is endemic in more than 100 countries. It has even shown up in Florida recently. There's no vaccine against the virus yet, so control efforts have focused on the mosquito that transmits the disease...."
More at NPR
"Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks.
The dengue virus causes a potentially fatal flu-like illness. The World Health Organization says the number of cases of dengue around the world is skyrocketing, and the disease is endemic in more than 100 countries. It has even shown up in Florida recently. There's no vaccine against the virus yet, so control efforts have focused on the mosquito that transmits the disease...."
More at NPR
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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