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First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Malaria mosquitoes are attracted by human smells

Mosquitoes infected carrying the malaria parasite are more likely to land on and examine materials laced with human body odor than materials untainted by 'the human smell'. Mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are more attracted to human body odor ... [Published Digital Journal - May 18 2013]

Entities: Malaria, James Logan, Anopheles Gambiae, Plasmodium Falciparum, Anopheles

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

University of California

Researchers at University of California Report New Data on Tropical Medicine and Public Health

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at AIDS Weekly -- New research on Tropical Medicine and Public Health is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from San Francisco, California, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "In ... [Published NewsRX - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tropical Medicine, University of California, Public Health

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes More Attracted to Humans

Mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite are significantly more attracted to human odors than uninfected mosquitoes.Researchers already knew that the microscopic parasite -- Plasmodium falciparum -- can alter the behavior of the mosquitoes it infects, ... [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]

Entities: James Logan, Malaria, Plasmodium Falciparum, Infection

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Peter Piot

[Comment] Offline: The season of infinite madness

The first meeting of a new Commission on the Future of Health in Africa, led by Peter Piot (Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), met last week in Ghana's capital city, Accra. The last Commission for Africa, produced for the ... [Published Lancet - May 17 2013]

Entities: Peter Piot, Bob Geldof, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Malarial mosquitoes like targetting humans

Mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are far more attracted to humans than those without it.All mosquitoes are attracted by the smell of human sweat, but researchers in the Netherlands found malarial mosquitoes are three times as likely to be lured ... [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]

Entities: James Logan, olfaction, Parasitism

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 6 reports

Humans Scent Is Even Sweeter For Malaria Mosquitoes

12:05 pm So yummy, in fact, that our scent is a big way the pesky insects track us down.But just how much mosquitoes like Eau de Human may not be entirely up to the bugs.Mosquitoes are more attracted to human odors when they're infected with the malaria ... [Published NHPR - May 16 2013]

Entities: Malaria, Insect, Molecule, Anopheles

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

iPhone

Could your iPhone save kids' lives?

By attaching an $8 lens to his iPhone with a piece of double-sided tape, Canadian doctors produced a field microscope that can be used to diagnose intestinal worms in low resource settings.By attaching an $8 lens to his iPhone with a piece of double-sided ... [Published Deseret Morning News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Ringworm, Hookworm, iPhone

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

DIY iPhone Microscope Costs $8 To Make

Internal medicine and infectious disease specialist Isaac Bogoch and his colleagues turned an iPhone 4S into a fairly accurate microscope by attaching an eight dollar, three-millimeter ball lens to the smartphone’s camera lens using double sided tape ... [Published PSFK - May 15 2013]

Entities: iPhone, Tropical Medicine, Diagnostic

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Tracking Vaccine Scares

London Vaccine scares have emerged as a major challenge to global efforts to eliminate preventable diseases, with rumours and conspiracy theories proliferating faster than health authorities can respond to them. Now researchers, led by Heidi Larson of ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: Vaccine, Conspiracy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Smartphones may soon don the role of a microscope

By sticking a little $8 lens to an iPhone with a piece of double-sided tape, a Canadian doctor has produced a microscope that works reasonably well at diagnosing intestinal worms in children.The invention, described recently in The American Journal of ... [Published Economic Times - May 14 2013]

Entities: Ringworm, Hookworm, Smartphone

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Bowel cancer survival in the UK an interview with Camille Maringe London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Home » Syndicated Content » Bowel cancer survival in the UK: an interview with Camille Maringe, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineRelated Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare NewsColorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in ... [Published BioPortfolio - May 14 2013]

Entities: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Colorectal Cancer

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

NZ–Solomons builders donate house for medical training

MEDIA RELEASETuesday 14 May 2013 A brand new guest house for overseas medical and nursing students in Honiara, Solomon Islands, was officially opened this morning thanks to New Zealand building companies.Auckland-based company Timber Construction Solutions ... [Published Scoop - May 14 2013]

Entities: Solomon Islands, Honiara (Solomon Islands), New Zealand

Quotes

"Borreliosis is not a viral illness but a bacterial one, and therefore it can be effectively treated with antibiotics" declares the MedUni Vienna researcher...

Effective vaccination against borreliosis possible [Published Health Canal - 6 hours ago]

"A true fever, caused by an infectious agent is never harmful; there's no reason why one should lower the temperature during infection" said Dr. Peter Kremsner, head of the InstituteInstitute of Tropical Medicine at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and an author of three malaria...

Fever reducers don't slow children's recovery from infection [Published MSN News - 9 hours ago]

...In the interview, Logan explains why only the parasite carrying mosquitoes are attracted: "We think [the parasite] is giving them a heightened sense of smell. We are hypothesizing there is an alteration somewhere in their olfactory system that allows them to find us quicker,” which would make it more likely that the parasite enters the blood stream, ensuring it’s survival—and the spread of the disease." From the study's outcome, the new attractive compounds which could be used to develop improved mosquito traps for surveillance or trapping programs...

Malaria mosquitoes are attracted by human smells [Published Digital Journal - May 18 2013]

He said: "If we know how the parasite is able to manipulate the olfactory system... perhaps we can identify new attractants for infected mosquitoes and we will be able to increase our efficiency with trapping techniques."

Malaria Parasite Lures Mosquito to Human Odour [Published Qatar News Agency - May 18 2013]

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[Comment] Offline: The season of infinite madness [Published Lancet - May 17 2013]
Malarial mosquitoes like targetting humans [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]
Malaria parasite drives infected mosquitos to a... [Published Raw Story - May 16 2013]
Humans Scent Is Even Sweeter For Malaria Mosqui... [Published NHPR - May 16 2013]
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Could your iPhone save kids' lives? [Published Deseret Morning News - May 16 2013]
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DIY iPhone Microscope Costs $8 To Make [Published PSFK - May 15 2013]
Tracking Vaccine Scares [Published Individual.com - May 15 2013]
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Blogs

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Malaria parasite drives infected mosquitos to a... [Published Raw Story - May 16 2013] Topics: london school of hygiene and tropical medicine ♦ malaria parasiteBritish researchers announced Wednesday that they have established that the malaria parasite makes the smell of human beings even more irresistible to mosquitos that feed on our ...
Smelly Socks Attract Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes [Published Gawker - May 16 2013] If you’re in a tropical country and looking to avoid malaria, the scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have an easy pro-tip for you: wash your damn socks.Researchers placed several pairs of smelly socks –which they stank up ...
Minimum pricing for alcohol: the red-faced rant... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 08 2013] Intense lobbying from alcohol producers would appear to have killed-off this ground-breaking policy The absence of minimum pricing for alcohol in today's Queen's Speech is a chilling reminder of the influence big business still has on public health ...
News story: DFID Research: Nanotechnology in th... [Published Inside government - Department for Internationa ... - Apr 29 2013] On Thursday the 25th April people around the globe marked World Malaria Day . The struggle against malaria continues to prove long and difficult. The estimated death toll in 2010 was 660,000 and while mortality rates have fallen by 25% since 2000, there ...
GSK and Roche tell MPs that more clinical trial... [Published PharmaGossip - Apr 27 2013] By Adrian O’DowdTwo of the world’s largest drug companies have told MPs in parliament that they support a policy of publishing all clinical trial data.A leading academic and clinician has, however, questioned their assertions and challenged them over ...

Press Releases

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