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Frederik Seelig

@frederikseelig.bsky.social
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Medium-sized mammal. Interested in disease vectors & #VBDs 🦟🕷️🪰, #immunology, #GlobalHealth, birdwatching and #SciComm. Center Manager @civia-aarhus.bsky.social‬ , previously Partnerships Manager for @globalvectorhub.bsky.social at‬ @lshtm.bsky.social‬.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This 1799 book by John Lettsom, requested by one of our readers, has some lovely illustrations of insects on the title page and starts off with a fitting quote: "He that enlarges his curiosity after the works of nature, [...] demonstrably multiplies the inlets to happiness." #KewLA
Book 'The Naturalist's and Traveller's companion; by John Coakley Lettsom, M.D.' open at the title page. Both pages have coloured illustrations of various insects. Detail of an illustration of a jewel beetle in green and red.
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ooh, new bed bug paper out! The title is a mouthful, but found bed bug resurgence likely NOT related to intercontinental travel. Insecticide resistance occurred and spread quickly because of extensive inbreeding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Admixture without recurrent intercontinental gene flow: contrasting patterns of genetic diversity and knockdown resistance profiles reveal independent evolution in resurgent common bed bug populations...
The common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) was largely eliminated from industrialized countries by mid-twentieth century insecticide campaigns including the widespread application of DDT. However, by the ...
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🦟 #Deutschland: Zwei neue #Malaria-Fälle im Umfeld des #Frankfurter Flughafens, eine Person inzwischen verstorben.// #Germany: Two new #malaria cases in the vicinity of #Frankfurt Airport; one person has since died." @frankfurt.de frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuel... frankfurt.de/themen/gesun...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"While the male is making up what passes for his mind, the female tips the balance in her favor by eating his head." RIP Annie Dillard theallfreenovel.com/54470/30/the...
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Read The Annie Dillard Reader page 30 online free by Annie Dillard
Read or listen complete The Annie Dillard Reader page 30 book online for free from Your iPhone, iPad, android, PC, Mobile. Read Annie Dillard books online at Read Online Free
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The mating rites of mantises are well known: a chemical produced in the head of the male insect says, in effect, “No, don’t go near her, you fool, she’ll eat you alive.” At the same time a chemical in his abdomen says, “Yes, by all means, now and forever yes.”
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HeiGIT @heigit.org · 16/09/2026
Tropical mosquitoes are now local 🦟 In Heidelberg, we found Aedes albopictus breeding depends on urban structure: terraced housing hosted most sites, multi-family the least. Control reduces breeding, but unmanaged private plots remain the weak point. Local strategies matter. buff.ly/OCR1EdJ
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🦟" #Asia on high alert as #ElNiño threatens new #dengue #epidemic: Higher temperatures mean more #mosquitoes, and with them will come a new surge in “break-bone” fever, say experts" by @sneweyy.bsky.social in @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
World map showing typical impact areas of El Nino.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026
thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️
Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🔭Had an amazing time in #Falsterbo in #Sweden this weekend with incredible amount of raptors migrating south - large numbers of honey buzzards and sparrowhawks, plus western marsh harriers, ospreys, some merlins, wheatears and lovely waders (eg ruffs and greenshanks)! 🥰🦅🦆
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to all winners of this year's #IgNobel Prize (www.nature.com/articles/d41...), and in particular Justin Puma et al., for pioneering the use of #mosquito (Aedes aegypti)🦟 proboscises as high-res 3D printing nozzles, a process called necroprinting: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
⚠️Invasive #mosquito species detected in east #London: @ukhsa.bsky.social finds invasive #Aedes aegypti breeding (!) in east London, prompting enhanced #surveillance. 🦟 Risk of #disease transmission remains very low. #VBDs #dengue #chikungunya www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨Breaking news UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance. ⬇️ Invasive mosquito species detected in east London - GOV.UK www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Invasive mosquito species detected in east London
UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance.
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very concerning, good to see strong surveillance and control efforts implemented by @ukhsa.bsky.social .
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Specimens are submitted constantly to entomology departments. Turning it into an open access (and well written) paper by students in Nature is fantastic teaching. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Live triatomine bug, vector of Trypanosoma cruzi , found engorged in Lisbon hotel room: A first for Portugal and for Europe - Parasites & Vectors
Triatomine bugs are blood feeding insects that transmit the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease. The bugs are found primarily in the Americas with a few species in Asia and A...
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Great story! Still waiting for the upcoming detective series about the "Blue Hen sleuths".🪳
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Public Health Ontario ( @publichealthon.bsky.social) have launched this publicly accessible tool for various VBDs and vectors, with some really useful data and resources. 🦟🕷️🦠 www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
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Friedemann Weber @friedemann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Hyalomma, the principal vector of the virus that causes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF)" “the tick is a hunter...If we’re in the field, Hyalomma are running after us.” #arbovirus
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Deadly tick-borne virus gains ground in Europe as climate warms
Kosovo shows how surveillance can uncover hidden circulation—and help countries prepare before human cases appear
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🦟 #Frankfurt: "Two German airport workers die of #malaria after ' #mosquito arrives on plane'" via #BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
It is believed the mosquitoes arrived at Germany's busiest airport on a plane, according to German public health officials.
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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Mosquito ecologist: Aedes are going to start laying eggs in it soon so best to dump it or treat it with Bti.
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🪰🐝🦟‘If only people knew’: the fascinating lives of flies. Great article @flygirlnhm.bsky.social ! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘If only people knew’: the fascinating lives of flies
Most people associate the insects with filth, but they are vital to the food cycle and sometimes even pretty
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On #WorldMosquitoDay we commemorate the discovery by Sir Ronald Ross in 1897 that female anopheline #mosquitoes transmit #malaria between humans. It is worth noting that he made his discovery on #Anopheles stephensi while based in Secunderabad in India. 🦟 [1/7]
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Center for Immunology of Viral Infections (CiViA) @civia-aarhus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 "A genome-wide map of the genetic network in #monocytes that regulates type I #interferon induction by the #cGAS-STING pathway" by @civia-aarhus.bsky.social authors Emil A Thomsen, Jacob G Mikkelsen et al. now published in @science.org Science Signaling www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Immunology
Fig. 1. Identification of genes regulating IFNB1 expression.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey folks: 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences' is dirt-cheap as an e-book right now, at least via the evil corporate bookseller: $2.99 (USA, amzn.to/3UlpyMP); or $3.99 (Canada, link.amazon/B00gBshZa). (Or, of course, buy elsewhere if you prefer!)🧪 1/2
Book cover: Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: an Evidence-Based Approach. With an adorable barn owl perched on a piece of writing.
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades. www.sciencenews.org/article/drought…
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How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil
Animals searching for water brought the forest to the city, perhaps sparking Brazil’s first yellow fever outbreak in decades.
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thank you @lrb.co.uk for printing my letter on Oliver Cussen's article on Sunil Amrith's new book "The Burning Earth". My letter only referred to a very minor point about #RachelCarson and #DDT in this wide-ranging review, but I'm glad it got printed.🦟 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Had an amazing time with Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Dawn Landes last night. Thank you for the amazing gig at #Voxhall in #Aarhus!
A woman with guitar singing in front of a crowd.A woman with guitar singing in front of a crowd.A man with guitar and a band performing in front of a crowd.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🦟 "A City Mobilizes Against a Stubborn Health Threat: #Mosquitoes" - great article by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social in @nytimes.com, highlighting efforts focusing on strong community engagement, LSM and deployment of #Wolbachia-infected mosquitos. #dengue #Belem #Brazil www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/h...
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A City Mobilizes Against a Stubborn Health Threat: Mosquitoes (Gift Article)
The city of Belém in northern Brazil was overwhelmed by an outbreak of dengue two years ago. An all-out municipal effort has reduced cases and may offer lessons to American cities.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The city of Belém in northern Brazil was overwhelmed by an outbreak of dengue two years ago. An all-out municipal effort has reduced cases and may offer lessons to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/h...
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A City Mobilizes Against a Stubborn Health Threat: Mosquitoes (Gift Article)
The city of Belém in northern Brazil was overwhelmed by an outbreak of dengue two years ago. An all-out municipal effort has reduced cases and may offer lessons to American cities.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📢 Looking for a #job? @lshtm.bsky.social is #hiring a #ResearchFellow to support delivery of 2 studies evaluating #malaria #vector control tools (topical repellent in #CoteDIvoire & genetically modified #Anopheles stephensi in #Djibouti)🦟. Closing Date 24/8/2026. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🦟"Schon mehr als 240 Fälle von #WestNilFieber in #Europa registriert//More than 240 cases of #WestNileVirus infections detected in #Europe this season, with 139 cases in Italy, but also in France, Greece, Romania, Spain, North Macedonia, and Germany." via @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/d...
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West-Nil-Fieber: Schon mehr als 240 Fälle in Europa registriert
Seit Beginn der Mückensaison haben sich zahlreiche Menschen in Europa mit dem West-Nil-Virus infiziert. Viele Fälle werden in Italien registriert, aber auch Deutschland ist betroffen.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📢 #Internship opportunity at @who.int's Emerging Zoonosis and High Impact Epidemics Unit, focusing on #arboviruses and an early warning system for #chikungunya and other #arboviral threats.🦟 Closing date: 21 August 2026. More info ⬇️ careers.who.int/careersectio...
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Internship – Emerging Zoonosis and High Impact Epidemics
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📢 @who.int latest Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER), including Global #Dengue Update (data as of end of June 2026). 🦟 More info: iris.who.int/server/api/c... worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/dengue_global/
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Inspired by @mosquitolab.bsky.social's enthusiastic description (skywriter.blue/@mosquitolab...) I managed to get hold of a copy of JD Gillett's "Common African Mosquitos" from 1972 and its wonderful drawings by Dr Judith G Smith.🦟
Book cover of JD Gillett's "Common African Mosquitos" from 1972, showing large drawing of mosquito.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🕷️" #Ticks Are on the Move. Here Are the Risks in Your Region. Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas." by @briannaabbott.bsky.social in @nytimes.com [gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/w...
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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 08/07/2026
Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Manche Stechmücken stechen praktisch nur Menschen. Das ist heute verständlich, weil es so unglaublich viele Menschen gibt. Aber diese Spezialisierung begann schon vor über einer Million Jahre, als Menschen noch eher selten waren. Kluge Wahl, Stechmücke!
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/07/2026
Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.
A somewhat grainy, sorry, theatrical release poster.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🦟"Catnip lotion as effective as #Deet at repelling #mosquitoes, study finds" by @katlay.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally
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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 08/07/2026
I have a fine selection of bug memes.
Meme caption: When ur a moth but also a goth

Photo of a Clymene moth which has a white body, black tips along the edges of the wings and an upside down black cross pattern when wings are at rest.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📢 Looking for a #job in #CentralAmerica 🌎 ? @doctorswithoutborders.org are #hiring an #Entomologist for International Humanitarian Missions. 🕷️ 🦟 🪰 Start date: September 2026. More information ⬇️ job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosint...
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there?  A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years.  Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected.  doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social
This photo was taken in Area de Conservacion GuanacasteThis microgastrine wasp was named by co-author Jose Fernandez-Triana in honour of Costa Rican parataxonomist Roberto Espinoza in recognition of his contribution to understanding the plant biology of ACG.  The species is Snellenius robertoespinozai.  The image is Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) so can reused provided the original author (Jose Fernandez-Triana) and the source are properly cited.  The source is: Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Kula RR, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2015) Revision of the genera Microplitis and Snellenius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(2): 137-201. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.62.5276image of a Malaise trap in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Great cartoon by @lynnihsu.bsky.social y.social in @newyorker.com. Enjoy the beautiful outdoors this summer, but stay protected against #ticks, #flies & #mosquitos! (And yes, some mozzies go for the ankles while ticks may prefer soft skin around the neck!)🕷️ 🪰 🦟 www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62050
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/06/2026
As many as half a million Americans have been afflicted with alpha-gal syndrome—a tick-borne disease that can cause a life-threatening allergy to red meat. Burkhard Bilger reports on the epidemic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dzPniM
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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🦟" #Drones Used to Fight #Mosquitoes as #Dengue Fever Surges in #SriLanka." by @purpleskiess.bsky.social in @nytimes.com [gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
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Drones Used to Fight Mosquitoes as Dengue Fever Surges in Sri Lanka
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Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🦟"Military deployed in #SriLanka to fight surging #dengue #outbreak. Spiralling #epidemic sees more than 1,000 people infected in a single day." by @sneweyy.bsky.social in @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Chart showing rapid surge of dengue cases in Sri Lanka in 2026 compared with 2025 and 2024.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
📢 Call for #Applications: Integrated #Arbovirus Management International #Course. 5-day, in-person training to strengthen prevention, detection and response to arboviral diseases ( #dengue, #Zika, #chikungunya).🦟 Application deadline 29 July 2026! community.pasteur-network.org/opportunitie...
Call for Applications: Integrated Arbovirus Management International Course. 5-day, in-person training to strengthen prevention, detection and response to arboviral diseases (dengue, Zika, chikungunya).
Application deadline 29 July 2026!
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