Prasad Paradkar
@prasadnp
Scientist, Virologist, Mosquito-borne pathogens. Views are my own 🇮🇳 🇦🇺 mosquito 🦟 🦠
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05-05-2009 01:44:42
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Global upsurge in dengue in 2024 - The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/journals/lanin… The Lancet
Excellent news: #India has eliminated #trachoma, a debilitating disease which previously afflicted millions in 🇮🇳. Congratulations to health workers, communities, the government and partners who collaborated to make it possible. #RC77 Narendra Modi who.int/southeastasia/…
Fantastic new paper by Laura B Duvall and colleagues: Mosquitoes deciding when during their day to bite you: Circadian modulation of mosquito host-seeking persistence by Pigment-Dispersing Factor impacts daily biting patterns biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
rdcu.be/dYl8U #oropouche Antonio Lima (Tanta) Given the complex interactions between climate change, env. modification, urban growth &human mobility, lack of effective surveillance will continue to facilitate the (re-)emergence of pathogens with potential epidemic capacity
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking health threats from inaction World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Maria Neira thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Pakistan has seen a recent rise in Chikungunya cases, with local experts citing that high temperatures, combined with rainfall, have created more favourable breeding conditions for the Aedes mosquitoes that carry the virus. Read more in the The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🚀 Excited to share our first preprint on single-cell transcriptional landscapes of Aedes aegypti with Sarah Merkling , exploring dynamic changes in mosquito midgut and abdominal fat body after a bloodmeal. 🦟biorxiv.org/content/10.110…