Florida has 252 locally caught dengue cases this year, more than five times any of the prior four years at this date, a University of Florida researcher said. Hillsborough County, around Tampa, accounts for 223 of them, so most of the jump is one county's outbreak, far north of the Miami-area clusters Florida sees every year.
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- Adoption
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A South Florida team ran 119 volunteers past Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus behind a mesh screen, and the three species did not want the same people. Which skin bacteria explain that is still the open question.
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UKHSA says the larvae in east London have been destroyed and the public health threat is very low. This is the fourth UK detection of the species in recent years and the first with breeding, though a summer generation is not a population that overwinters.
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The finding is still a preprint, and it arrives with a burden estimate so loose that annual infections could plausibly be 400,000 or 2.7 million. That is a weak footing for anyone sizing a vaccine stockpile.
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Two Aedes species and a night-biting Culex tracked different chemistry on the same panel of people, so a repellent aimed at one cue is unlikely to protect equally well against all three disease vectors.
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