Mosquito control

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, a member of the Spondweni serocomplex, whose natural transmission cycle involves mainly vectors from the Aedes genus (A. furcifer, A. taylori, A. luteocephalus and A. africanus) and monkeys, while humans are occasional hosts. The illness is usually mild comprising symptoms lasting for several days to a week after being bitten by an infected mosquito. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika.…

What is the most deadly animal on the planet? No, it is not a bear or a shark, it is a mosquito. Mosquitos carry all sorts of deadly diseases, including the Zika virus, Yellow fever, Dengue fever, and most deadly of all, Malaria. A mosquito is the perfect carrier for human diseases, as they have been around for over 200 million years, number in the trillions, and can lay hundreds of eggs at a time. They cause about a million deaths every year and have been so far impossible to stop. Scientists…

Amanda B. Keener, a deadly virus continues to draw close and travel from central America to well common populated areas of the continental United States. As this occurs, more worries and concerns begin to form. The Zika virus is transmitted by mosquitos. Scientists are working around the clock to create vaccines and find a way to stop the outbreak or form a mode of protection. Researchers tested multiple vaccines on different animals. They wanted to examine what will be the outcome or result…

Heartworm disease. Canines that live outdoors has a greater risk of mosquito exposure than any canine that primarily lives indoors. Female mosquitoes feed on the canine’s blood, and if the canine is infected with L1 microfilaria, the mosquito sucks up the larvae that lives in the blood. The next canine that the mosquito takes a blood meal from will be infected with the L3 larvae. This infective L3 larvae enters the canine where the mosquito feeds. While the L3 larvae is living in the skin, it…

doctors without borders, and wanted to know exactly what I have to watch out for and why. Malaria affects two main hosts; humans and female mosquitoes, Anopheles. When humans are first exposed to the parasite is through a bite from an affected female mosquito. Once the disease has been transported to humans, it begins to grow and multiply in the liver cells then moving to the red blood cells. Once in the blood the parasites reproduce inside the red blood cells, ultimately destroying them. By…

SIKH CULTUREWhile caring for a patient in the hospital, one very important thing that a nurse needs to be is culturally competent. In caring for someone from the Sikh community the nurse must respect privacy, the fact that the patient may want to stay as covered up as possible, allowing ample time for prayer, trying to plan out the patient care around prayer times, avoid any unnecessary touching, respecting personal space, be knowledgeable of the Sikh’s five K’s as mentioned earlier in the…

Recently discovered Zika has swept the world off its feet. This dangerous disease is spread mostly through the bite of an infected species of mosquito. Primarily targeting pregnant women, it can be passed down from mom to fetus and in turn cause certain malicious birth defects. Before last year, the virus was a miniscule, controlled, barely noted annoyance. Scientists are now beginning to consider environmental chances that encouraged Zika's explosion into a global crisis. One of many observed…

Africa is a huge continent land mass that is” four times the size of the United States”, and that is “12 million square miles that is larger than North America”(Collins, Burns 7).Africa is filled deserts, savanna, mountains, mediterranean, rainforests, prairie grassland and vast forests. Through all this topical geography Africa does have very many environmental and health issues. In the beginning when Africa was becoming a continent it was”punctuated by every geographical and geological feature…

1. The primary research objective is to understand how the accumulation of parasites increases the age infection of the cricket population. The research is designed to use an age curve to quantify the infectious crickets removed from the population. 2. (a) Figure 1a: In experiment 2, the mean jump for the uninfected cricket was about 33 while the mean jump for the infected cricket was about 16. In experiment 3, the mean jump for the uninfected cricket was about 23 while the mean jump for the…

The Wuchereria bancrofti curls like an s at both ends . The female is longer and curls up at the end while male is shorter and also curls. What is the worms life cycle? A mosquito transfer larvae of the worm into blood stream of human while inside the human the worm grows into adulthood and then the worm lays eggs for the mosquito to pick the eggs up were the eggs turn into larvae and the cycle continues. What type of climate does the worm live in? The Wuchereria bancrofti commonly…