Beat the Bite Project

As travel begins to open up, no doubt COVID will be on your mind. Please remember to protect yourself from mosquito-borne illness when traveling to affected areas. The CDC is a great resource to research the areas you are going. When in doubt seek the help of a physician that specializes in travel. Of note, Dengue cases are up and all travelers should take precautions in an ever widening area of endemic disease due to population growth and climate change. This is a nice article for more information:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/dengue-fever-is-on-the-rise-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-many-places-around-the

There is a deadly outbreak of Dengue going on in South America

Paraguay dengue fever death toll rises to 34 The death toll from a dengue fever outbreak in Paraguay rose to 34, the Public H...

Great conference coming up March 23-25 in Galveston, TX.
https://www.utmb.edu/globalhealth/resources/news/2020/01/15/vector-borne-infectious-disease-conference

Promising to be a deadly summer....remember to protect yourself and each other.

West Nile, Chikungunya, Dengue Reported In Texas Summer hasn’t started yet – that happens June 21 – but several cases of vector-borne diseases have been identified in Texas. Four cases each of chikungunya and dengue have been reported in Dallas, Fort Bend, Harris, Lubbock, Tarrant, and Travis counties, the Texas Department of State Health Se...

Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild mosquitoes | National Institutes of Health (NIH) - www.nih.gov
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/disease-resistance-successfully-spread-modified-wild-mosquitoeshttps://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/disease-resistance-successfully-spread-modified-wild-mosquitoes

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