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    its eggs. Both females and males use plant nectar‚ fruit juices‚ and liquids that ooze from plants as another food source. A mosquito has a long‚ slim body with 6 legs‚ a mouthpiece called a proboscis designed to suck in food‚ and two antennae. Mosquitoes are nocturnal but they do rest in dense vegetation‚ caves‚ tree holes‚ chicken coops‚ stables‚ and basements during daytime. When a male mosquito wants to find a mate it will listen to the sound of the female’s wings as they reach a higher frequency

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    are occurring. c. Scope and delimitation There is no specific treatment for dengue fever. But we can prevent having dengue fevers. The best way to prevent dengue virus infection is to take special precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. Several dengue vaccines are being developed‚ but none is likely to be licensed by the Food and Drug Administration in the next few years. When outdoors in an area where dengue fever has been found *Use a mosquito repellent containing DEET

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    Malaria in Nigeria

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    Malaria is one of the devastating cases in the world‚ It has become a major problem because its spreading in 109 countries. Almost 90% of malaria death comes from Africa‚ around 66% of the people’s lives are in high risk. So in total‚ less than 15% of the global total malaria deaths occur in Asia and Eastern Europe. (author) Why is malaria dangerous? Malaria in humans is caused by many types of parasites but the most dangerous and

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    Yellow Fever 1793

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    people would recover. Others could get worse within 24 hours. [1] The yellow fever virus is a dormant‚ single strand of RNA‚ packaged in a lipoprotein envelope. The transmissions occur through bites of infected aedes aegypti or haemagogus mosquitoes. Human and nonhuman primates are the main reservoirs of the virus. Traveling through a lytic life cycle‚ the virus first enters the host and is phagocytosed by a macrophage. The virus then sheds its envelope to keep from being further digested.

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    Research Proposal

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    Capsicum frutescens (chili) FRUIT EXTRACT AS AN ALTERNATIVE INSECT REPELLENT FOR MOSQUITO AND TERMITES GIEZL MAE T. CABUG ZEYDATUNNISA C. KALINGGALAN SHAINA PILAR G. AMANDORON SITTI AYESHA Q. HASIMAN NICAELA G. IBANEZ LAKAN ENER DT JACOBA AL-RAQIB AZIM A. JALJIS I-GALILEO REGIONAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL XI Malasiga‚ San Roque Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment of the requirement in Research 1 (Technical Writing and Basic Statistics) Mrs. Edna Natividad

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    Research Plan

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    sifting we will put it on the bottle and wait for an hour until it gets cold. V. INTRODUCTION: This project entitled Organic Syrup as Mosquito Larvae Killer focuses on lessening the rate of dengue victims. This experiment test if we can prevent mosquitoes to increase their numbers in a short period of time. This insect repellent is also an eco-friendly type that neither destroys nor affects the environment. Using this kind of repellent we assure that we can lessen the rate of mosquito larvae.

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    Yellow Buzz: Buzz Buzz

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    hopefully why you are even reading this paper‚ to learn about yellow fever‚ and how it can affect you. I was a victim of yellow fever‚ this is my voice from the afterlife‚ and this is my story. I lived in a country in Africa called Gabon‚ and the mosquitoes were everywhere. I knew that yellow

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    Encephalitis

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    I. Intoduction Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis is an inflammatory process in the brain parenchyma. It is associated with clinical evidence of brain dysfunction due to infective (usually viral) or non-infective processes. The pattern of brain involvement depends on the specific pathogen‚ the immunological state of the host‚ and a range of environmental factors. In encephalitis the virus initially gains entry and replicates in local or regional tissue‚ such as the

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    cooperation and DOH (ITDI)  **Completed Activities ITDI Study  The developed ovi/larvicidal trap system is effective in attracting Aedes mosquitoes and at the same time lethal to hatched larvae  It is safe‚ cheap and make use of natural active agent  The process is simple and can control the population of Aedes mosquitoes Laboratory Study   The Ovi-Trap System (OTS) with test solution was able to attract about 70% of Aedes Mosquito population as compared

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    Monsoon Maladies

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    water due to leakages in the drinking water lines. Diseases that are spread during monsoon are basically water borne and gastrointestinal infections. Typhoid and Diarrhea are common. Accumulation of water on the roads promotes the growth of the mosquitoes causing malaria and dengue. Also diseases like dryness‚ spasmodic pain‚ high blood pressure‚ gas formation and gastric disturbances occur frequently. Also one comes across cases of fever and coughs and colds. Here are top 6 sinister monsoon-related

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