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We have been hearing about the development of the malaria vaccine for years but there still isn’t one publicly available. Discover the history of, and current plans for, the RTS,S vaccine, currently our best hope for saving children and babies all over the African continent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We hate fleas and love our cats but are flea and tick medications safe? Learn about the history of permethrin based medications, how they work on a cellular level, and how to keep your kitty from a potentially fatal overdose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Carpenter ants are highly destructive costing millions of dollars in damage every year. Learn how we figured out how to control viruses to stop their destruction. Biological control to the rescue! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On the spot interviews with the marchers at the South Bend Indiana March for Science Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Urban planners use the history of Lyme disease and the ecology of the ticks that carry it to impact the infection rates. What they learned might change how you look at your own backyard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is part 2 of a very special crossover with Benjamin Jacobs from Wittenberg to Westphalia Podcast. In this final part we discuss how tiny insects and bad water killed more medieval soldiers than fighting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is part 1 of a very special crossover with Benjamin Jacobs from Wittenberg to Westphalia Podcast. In this first part we discuss how the horrible diet of medieval soldiers resulted in serious health concerns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Urban planning is more than just deciding where to put new roads. This is the first in a two part series on how urban planners work with public health workers to reduce or even prevent disease outbreaks. In this episode we investigate the surprising connection between snails and dams, eye worms and irrigation, and malaria and canals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unlike most diseases transmitted by blood feeders, the Zika virus can also be transmitted sexually. Find out how this surprising fact was discovered, what it has to do with the 1975 Nobel prize, and how it shapes public health recommendations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Insects have studied for many years, but it wasn’t until this year that we began to understand why DEET repels ticks. In the process we find that ticks have a different system of smelling than both humans and insects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
DEET has been the gold standard of insect repellents for more than 50 years. Her is what we know about its history, how it works, and why we need something to replace it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why mosquitoes require blood is a fundamental question, but the answer may surprise you. Meet your new favorite mosquito and find out what makes your blood so great. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With West Nile infections popping up from Michigan to Mumbai how many people are interested in how West Nile is transmitted. It goes from mosquito to human, but can it go back again? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Interactions between mosquitoes and plants lead to interesting questions about what mosquitoes are doing when they aren’t biting people. Could it be that animals aren’t the only victims of these vectors of disease? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Does the news about parasites in sushi have you avoiding your favorite restaurants? Learn all about the worms and how to avoid them. Announcements: Tiny Vampires has joined the Agora Podcast Network ! I am very excited to have joined such a supportive team and really look forward to learning from them. My goal is always to bring more of the science you want to you and I really feel Agora will help me towards that goal. Please take the Agora Podcast Network Survey . It will help my new network to...
Videos about the Kite mosquito repellent stickers have been making their way around social media and news outlets. In this episode the host explains how the chemicals in these patches physically interact with the mosquito to change their behavior. The advertisement that the listener posted with questions about if these patches work and how. More detailed information about how neurons work. The paper discussed in this episode is "Ultra-prolonged activation of CO2-sensing neurons disorients mosqui...
A special companion episode to the “Outbreak” episode of the Beyond the Big Screen Podcast . The story of the development of the Ebola vaccine and the trails to determine if it really works. Details on different types of vaccines, the many ways they are tested, and ethical issues during an outbreak. The paper we discussed in this episode was Efficacy and effectiveness of an rVSV-vectored vaccine in preventing Ebola virus disease: final results from the Guinea ring vaccination, open-label, cluste...
The risks in traveling to the Amazon rainforest: How travelers can find out if the trip is worth risk, including resources for anyone thinking about traveling anywhere in the world and an introduction to the connection between leishmaniasis and tourism. CDC's quick visual guide to help travelers pack Zika-smart for a trip to South America. This Episodes scientific paper was by Fernandes Brilhante et al "Epidemiological aspects of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in an endemic area of fores...
Gene drives and Mosquitoes: A new technology could save us from the deadliest parasite in the world today, but we aren't using it. Here's why. The episode thumbnail image this month is a microscope image of human blood cells infected by Plasmodium falciparum the parasite that kills millions. Its transmission could possibly be stopped by a gene drive system but their release is halted to ensure that the technology is safe and desired by the public. This weeks scientific paper describing the creat...
Mosquitoes and Sound: Love is in the air and there is more to that buzz than you might expect, but can you really use your phone as a mosquito repellent? This male mosquito is glued to a pin in the same manor as in the cantor study. This video is part of the art installation "Truce: Strategies for Post-Apocalyptic Comptation" by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni - http://robin.meier.free.fr/site/?page_id=38 One of the really great things about the studies that I present in this episode are that the res...
Information on the genetically modified mosquitoes the residence of the Florida Keys voted to release. Including what modifications were done, how the modifications will control the mosquito population, and some of the scientific investigation on the effectiveness of the lethal gene. Howard Hues Medical Institute video summary on how OX513A works. Learn the process by which a line of genetically modified mosquitoes was engineered to reduce populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the wild. Vir...
An overview of the ecological importance of mosquitoes, the pros and cons of their eradication along with an example of how they change the number of birds in France. Articles used for the podcast are: Red flag for green spray: adverse trophic effects of Bti on breeding birds by Brigitte Poulin, Gaetan Lefebvre and Leire Paz A WORLD WITHOUT MOSQUITOES: Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn’t it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes, finds Janet Fang by Janet...
An introduction to vector competence and medical geography. How researcher discovered the vector of the Zika virus and how those mosquitoes arrived in the US. Articles used for the podcast are: ZIKA VIRUS I). ISOLATIONS AND SEROLOGICAL SPECIFICITY by G. W. A. DICK HISTORY OF DOMESTICATION AND SPREAD OF AEDES AEGYPTI - A REVIEW by Jeffrey R Powell and Walter J Tabachnick FIRST DETECTION OF NATURAL INFECTION OF AEDES AEGYPTI WITH ZIKA VIRUS IN BRAZIL AND THROUGHOUT SOUTH AMERICA by Anielly Ferreir...
An introduction to your host, some podcast philosophy, and some key phrases you’ll need to know for future episodes. Music by http://www.bensound.com/badass Photo by Raven Forrest Fruscalzo: Larval kissing bugs during a behavior experiment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
