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COMMENT | Barbara Ntambirweki | Last week the Ugandan media was awash with reports that a British firm, Oxitec, in partnership with Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) is set to develop a technique for inserting a lethal gene into mosquitoes to combat malaria. While Uganda has one of the highest …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health experts have called for intensified awareness and efforts to eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes in Uganda, stating that the parasites have evolved threatening the effectiveness of the existing malaria tools. The experts’ assertion came ahead of World Mosquito Day, a global commemoration observed on August 20, …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government will next month carry out indoor spraying of mosquitoes in districts of Lango and West Nile. Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Director General Health Services in the Ministry of Health on Thursday said that spraying the mosquitoes will be rolled out in the districts …

Scientists discover they feed in shifts some during day, and some at night FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Malaria cases and deaths have been slowing down in sub-Saharan Africa in the last few years. This is because of a steady drop in incidence rate of the disease for decades prior …

Scientists are a step closer to figuring it out | MADELIEN WOODING AND YVETTE NAUDÉ | Mosquitoes contribute to the transmission of life-threatening diseases that include Zika, dengue, chikungunya, Rift Valley fever and malaria. Of these, malaria carries the most risk accounting for 229 million cases and more than 400,000 …

Kigezi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has launched a drive to spray mosquitoes using Microbial Larvicide as a way of controlling malaria in the Kigezi sub-region.  The program to be implemented in the districts of Kabale, Rubanda, and Kisoro was launched at Butanda health centre III in …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ugandan Government is instituting an insectarium where research on genetically modified mosquitoes will be conducted as a way of fighting malaria in Africa. The mosquito is designed to quickly spread a genetic mutation that is lethal to its own species.    UVRI entomologist Jonathan …

Tokyo, Japan | AFP | A breakthrough technique harnessing two methods to target disease-carrying mosquitoes was able to effectively eradicate buzzing biters in two test sites in China, according to research published on Thursday. The mosquitoes targeted are a type that is particularly difficult to control called Aedes albopictus — more …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Scientists have known for decades that mosquitoes are attracted to the lactic acid contained in human sweat, but in the era before advanced genetics, the precise mechanism had remained a mystery. Now, a team of researchers at Florida International University have discovered the olfactory …

Scientist develop vaccine technique that could block mosquitoes from transmitting disease Kampala, Uganda | WEI-CHIAO HUANG & JONATHAN LOVELL | Is it possible to eradicate malaria? It is a question with which many researchers have grappled, and many ideas have been proposed. The reason malaria has garnered so much attention is …