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Health officials raise serious concerns after growing outbreak of dangerous insect-borne disease — here's what you need to know
As the weather gets warmer, mosquitoes and other insects are active for longer periods during the year, allowing them to spread more disease. There have been new cases of diseases like West Nile ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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‘Gross’ moth invasion wreaks havoc on forests — and property values: ‘A very bad effect’
Tim's insects – stock.adobe.com The insect plague “could have a very bad effect” on California’s millions of acres of oak forest, study author Greg Dwyer, who teaches ecology and evolution ...
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The Most Dangerous Insect (and 13 Others to Avoid)
This insect transmits Chagas disease by biting humans, typically around the face, and then defecating near the wound. The parasite in their feces enters the bloodstream and can cause serious heart ...
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NYC Rats Harbor Plague Fleas
A team of entomologists, virologists, and immunologists trapped 133 Norway rats in Manhattan over a 10-month period and recorded the insects, arachnids ... which can cause disease in humans, but they ...
Mid-July crop insect and disease update
Potato leafhopper insects are currently being identified in area alfalfa fields at high enough numbers to justify insecticide treatment based on the level of leafhoppers per sweep as indicated ...
Rise in tick-borne diseases as insect spreads across metro (copy)
When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro. “Years ago, it would be ...