World Health Organization
2025-04-04 @ 10.37.26 ∈ In English
A new drug makes your blood toxic to mosquitoes – DW – 03/28/2025
Nitisinone is used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1, which is a disease where people have too much tyrosine in their blood. Lab tests found that […] the presence of the drug prevents the insect from being able to digest the human "blood meal" — 24 hours later, the insect dies.
2025-02-27 @ 17.09.34 ∈ In English
The loneliness paradox: How media narratives shape our solitude
[People] who believe being alone is harmful tend to feel lonelier after spending time alone in daily life. However, those with a more positive view of solitude don't just feel less lonely in the same situations, they actually feel more positive.
2024-08-23 @ 11.15.44 ∈ In English
Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows
Infrared radiation from a source roughly the temperature of human skin doubled the insects' overall host-seeking behavior when combined with CO2 and human odor. […] It's only in the context of other cues, such as elevated CO2 and human odor that IR makes a [difference;] infrared alone has no impact.
2024-02-19 @ 17.36.52 ∈ In English
2023-10-25 @ 18.31.28 ∈ In English
2023-10-03 @ 18.33.30 ∈ In English
Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer
It is almost two years to the day since the first vaccine - called RTS,S and developed by GSK - was backed by the WHO. […] The WHO said the effectiveness of the two vaccines was "very similar" and there was no evidence one was better than the other. However, the key difference is the ability to manufacture the University of Oxford vaccine - called R21 - at scale.
