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07/19/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Researchers discover a new, pesticide-free way to limit mosquitoes and reduce the spread of the West Nile virus

West Nile Virus (WNV) might sound like an exotic disease that affects people somewhere in Africa, but it is also pervasive throughout the United States, particularly in the hot, muggy, summer months. While most infected people never even exhibit any symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that about 1-in-5 infected people […]

04/09/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Infectious fungal lung disease on the rise in California as open borders invites wave of disease to the USA

If you live in California, you have likely been exposed to a highly contagious parasitic infection called Valley Fever. Reported cases of the disease have increased dramatically from just 719 back in the early 1990s, to over 5,300 in 2016. And experts believe that nine out of 10 cases go unreported. “That’s just the tip […]

01/04/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Why the flu vaccine will never work: Experts reveal how the virus “mutates annually” into something new

The deadliest pandemic in recorded history was known as the Spanish flu, and took place between 1918 and 1919. About 500 million people – a third of the Earth’s population at the time – were infected with the disease, and it proved fatal for between 20 and 50 million of them. The outbreak started in […]

12/14/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Chemicals causing malaria outbreaks across Africa as mosquitoes grow increasingly resistant to insecticides

Though it might seem like a rare, foreign disease to many Americans, nearly half of the entire world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria, a serious and sometimes fatal parasitic disease spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. Symptoms vary, and can include less acute conditions like fever, nausea, vomiting and general weakness, or serious, life-threatening symptoms […]

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