Upcoming Trend-Protective Clothing
By observing the way Aedes aegypti – a mosquito carrying viruses that cause Zika, dengue and yellow fever – bites, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a material that completely prevents mosquito bites. This is great news for folks who don’t like insecticides. https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/protective-clothing-three-revolutionary-textile-technologies/2021080356933. Dr Connie Says: Since many people …
Criteria Needed for Covid Vaccine Passports
Everyone is talking about the need for a Covid-19 passport once people have been vaccinated. But unlike the “yellow card” for vaccination against yellow fever, there are still key things we don’t know about the covid vaccines. A yellow fever shot provides lifetime protection against yellow fever. But there are many unknowns still with covid …
Monday Motivation (December 14, 2021)
Mondays are tough only for those people, who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today! #Monday #Motivation #CEDavisMD
Potential Treasure Trove From Tropical Plants
The rapid development of technology could unleash the world’s nature reserves of tropical vegetation and become a treasure trove of new drugs. A team of researchers at JCU’s Institute for Tropical Health Medicine has completed a two-year comprehensive review to improve the way new medical compounds are found in nature to address existing and emerging infectious …
Monday Motivation (Dec 7, 2021)
Let your Monday be filled with unbearable happiness and joy! Happy Monday! #Monday #Motivation #CEDavisMD
Africa needs locally made vaccines
Africa suffers from the centralised worldwide production and distribution imbalance, as its dependence on Western manufacturers exposes it to the consequences of vaccine nationalism and procurement constraints. Africa manufactures only 1% of the vaccines used in Africa. So how does Africa extradite itself from this nightmare? https://thenationonlineng.net/africa-needs-locally-made-vaccines/ Dr.Connie Says: Local vaccine manufacturing is …
Mosquitoes are good at sucking blood and having babies
An international team studied juvenile hormone, a molecule that regulates development, reproduction, and behavior in insects. They produced genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — carriers of deadly diseases including yellow fever, dengue, and zika — that cannot make juvenile hormone. The mutants could still mate and have babies. Just not as many as their juvenile hormone-producing counterparts …
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COVID-19 Vaccines Not Linked to Higher Risk of Death
There is no increased risk of death among people who are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new study published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DrConnie Says: Vaccinated individuals actually had a lower rate of non-COVID-19 mortality than unvaccinated people when the rate was adjusted for factors like age, the study found. …
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