Fred Sande
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Public health entomologist working on malaria surveillance of malaria vector in Malawi, Sub-saharan Africa
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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A new study from LSTM reveals hybrid schistosome parasites infecting humans that may be being missed by standard, WHO-recommended urine tests.
Full story: lstm.ac/HybridSchistosomeTesting
Full story: lstm.ac/HybridSchistosomeTesting
Hybrid schistosome parasites lead to calls for new diagnostic methods
The study, published in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases, describes new cases of mixed intestinal and urogenital schistosomiasis in patients from Mangochi District, Malawi. Although the
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May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A new study from LSTM reveals hybrid schistosome parasites infecting humans that may be being missed by standard, WHO-recommended urine tests.
Full story: lstm.ac/HybridSchistosomeTesting
Full story: lstm.ac/HybridSchistosomeTesting
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📢In case you missed the latest RAFT TechTalk entitled: "Could we eradicate #Anopheles stephensi 🦟 in #Africa?", you can watch it here: vimeo.com/1031858202
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Could we eradicate Anopheles stephensi in Africa?
This is the 5th webinar of the RAFT TechTalk series on: Emerging threats in a changing world, Aedes & Anopheles stephensi
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November 22, 2024 at 11:17 PM
📢In case you missed the latest RAFT TechTalk entitled: "Could we eradicate #Anopheles stephensi 🦟 in #Africa?", you can watch it here: vimeo.com/1031858202
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SC Johnson Guardian™ spatial repellent shows one-year efficacy against wild pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles arabiensis, with similar blood-feeding inhibition efficacy to Mosquito Shield™ in a Tanzanian experimental hut trial. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317755v1
SC Johnson Guardian™ spatial repellent shows one-year efficacy against wild pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles arabiensis, with similar blood-feeding inhibition efficacy to Mosquito Shield™ in a Tanzanian experimental hut trial. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317755v1
Spatial repellents (SR) that passively emanate airborne concentrations of an active ingredient withi
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November 23, 2024 at 5:44 AM
SC Johnson Guardian™ spatial repellent shows one-year efficacy against wild pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles arabiensis, with similar blood-feeding inhibition efficacy to Mosquito Shield™ in a Tanzanian experimental hut trial. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317755v1