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The study may lead to future breakthroughs in combating destructive tropical diseases like dengue fever, Zika virus and yellow fever. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mosquito genes hold key to halting dengue spread: study

We do not have vaccines for all the different viral diseases caused by this mosquito.

25 Jan 2018 5:23 PM IST

A Mumbai Municipal Corp. worker fumigates a street in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. While 2019 was the worst year on record for global dengue cases, experts fear an even bigger surge is possible because their efforts to combat it were hampered by restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP)

Dengue prevention efforts worldwide stifled by coronavirus pandemic

With healthcare systems crumbling in countries around the world, experts say they aren't sure how world would be able to...

13 July 2020 9:36 AM IST

The Zika infection is known to show up in mild forms, with symptoms like flu, but in pregnant women this virus can lead to birth defects.

Spread Zika info: Government to hospitals

BMC to put up posters while docs will tell patients about symptoms.

30 May 2017 2:30 AM IST

An Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. (Photo: AP)

Battle mosquitoes vigorously

Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya have taken more lives than other forms of pestilence.

29 May 2017 12:40 AM IST