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    Introduction High pitch noises and loud sound deterrents have been the weapon for many super markets and militaries‚ both domestic and foreign‚ around the world. The Mosquito developed in 2005 (Campbell‚ 2008)‚ is marketed as a teen deterrent. It emits a high frequency pitch that only people from age 14-25 can hear. Shopkeepers place it outside their places of business in order to discourage young teens from loitering in from of their shops. It has become a subject of The Long Range Acoustic Device

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    peel in an insect repellent. An insect repellent is a substance applied to any surface(surface where they live or hide) which discourages insects from landing or climbing on that surface. Effective insect repellents can protect you from serious mosquito- and tick-borne diseases. In the United States‚ mosquitoes can transmit diseases like St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus. Ticks can transmit serious diseases like Lyme disease‚ Rocky Mountain spotted fever‚ and Ehrlichiosis. I. BACKGROUND

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    dengue

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    possible signs of hemorrhage. This form of dengue fever can be life-threatening and can progress to the most severe form of the illness‚ dengue shock syndrome. There are many causes that can caused someone to get dengue fever. After being bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus‚ the incubation period ranges from three to 15 days before the signs and symptoms of dengue appear in stages. Dengue starts with coldness‚ headache‚ pain upon moving the eyes‚ and low backache. Painful aching in the legs and joints

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    intestine of human beings and larva penetrates the wall of the gut and then it enter into the muscles resulting cysts which even cause a huge pain and lead a person towards death. Filarial Worm‚ Wuchereria bancrofti Infected female causes infection. Mosquito is the host of Filarial Worm and it take this worm from blood. Regain and long time exposure cause a elephantiasis. Another type of worm‚ whose host is blackfly‚ leads to a

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    Natural Solutions As Alternative Mosquito Repellant Submission As Partial Fulfillment of the requirement in Research September 2012 Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Related Literature Natural Solutions The citronella plant is a very well loved plant‚ especially in the summer when its mosquito-repelling properties come in handy! Citronella is a common ingredient in insect repellant sprays and candles. It is also included in lotions

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    West Nile Virus (WNV)

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    and Disease Registry‚ (2005‚ Section 1). There could be 90 cases of Malathion-related illnesses from the proposed application program. But there could be many more without the application. Malathion applications can be controlled safely. But the mosquito population would prove to be harder without the

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    Joson‚ malaria is caused by four species of the Plasmodium parasite‚ namely P. falciparum‚ P. vivax‚ P. malariae and P. ovale. Only the first two are endemic to the Philippines. The parasite is primarily transmitted by the two species of Anopheles mosquito native to this country‚ the Anopheles flavirostris complex and the Anopheles maculatus complex. In the Philippines over 70 percent of malaria infections are due to P. falciparum infection. Only the female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria‚

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    Yellow Fever

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    jungle often. Urban yellow fever disease is a sickness of humans. It’s a spread from infected mosquitoes to other human beings. The urban yellow fever is the basis of most of the yellow fever epidemics and outbursts. Aedes aegypti is the type of mosquito that usually carries the yellow fever from one human to another. These types of mosquitoes breed close to human residences‚ like flower pots‚ useless tires‚ oil drums‚ and wet storage containers. This urban disease caused many mishaps to Napoleon’s

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    Introduction: Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted to humans and other vertebrate hosts by the bite of infected mosquitoes. The name “Yellow” is explained by jaundice that affect some patients with symptoms’ like yellow skin and yellow eyes(http://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/) The YF virus is the causative agent for Yellow fever and it belongs to the virus family Flaviviridae. Single stranded RNA (11kb) present in Flavi viruses .YF virus responsible for number

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    Lanzones Mosquito Coil

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    Katol from Lanzones Peel / Mosquito repellant There have been some study that like other plants lanzones peel has a certain compound that can repel mosquito. Way back in my elementary days I remember my sister making a project about this. They made a katol made from dried lanzones peeling they even copied the coil like structure of the commercially available katol. Here’s how they do it. Materials: Starch‚ aluminum foil‚ lazones peeling‚ commercial katol 1. Lanzones  was sun dried for a few days

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