#Research study in @Nature finds #mosquitos carrying Dengue Fever are able to thrive in #palmoil plantations. #Humanhealth should be more important than #greed. Resist and fight back when you #Boycottpalmoil 
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zero fucks given by these blood-sucking, flying bastards.
They fly so slowly towards my face, lazily avoiding the slap of my hand, like they're not even trying.
They aren't trying.
They've had the good kind of brownie and now they're out for blood.
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I feel them on my forehead. They are brazen. They want to feed and they just don't care.
As dengue cases rise, researchers point to simple solution: Trash cleanup
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-dengue-cases-simple-solution-trash.html
Medical Xpress · As dengue cases rise, researchers point to simple solution: Trash cleanup
New on Entomology Today: A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of other factors. #insects #mosquitos #dengue https://entomologytoday.org/2025/01/24/dengue-virus-effects-aedes-aegypti-mosquitoes-genetic-manipulation-byproduct/
Entomology Today · Dengue Virus Effects on Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes: Genetic Manipulation or Byproduct?A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of other factors.
UNMC Transmission: "Novel way to beat dengue: Deaf mosquitoes stop having sex"
"BBC Scientists believe they have found a quirky way to fight mosquito-spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika – by turning male insects deaf so they struggle to mate and breed.
Mosquitoes have sex while flying in mid-air and the males rely on hearing to chase down a female, based on her attractive wingbeats."
Husband and I due to travel to #chiangmai for 10 days in november and worried about the flood damage and #mosquitos after typhoon Yagi...
Im immune compromised and can't risk getting sick so we're thinking about changing our plans. But we also know local Thais desperately need tourist income.
Do we cancel Chiang Mai?
Go elsewhere in #Thailand?
Stay as planned??
Advice please 
LA Times: "...Los Angeles County public health officials are now warning about the “unprecedented” local transmission of dengue, which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical climates..." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-30/l-a-county-faces-unprecedented-dengue-transmission-climate-change-may-make-it-worse-experts-say #dengue #mosquitos #LosAngeles
Los Angeles Times · Mosquito-borne virus spread at 'unprecedented' levels in L.A.
New York reports death from EEE after 1st case diagnosed in nearly a decade https://abcnews.go.com/Health/new-york-reports-death-eee-after-1st-case/story?id=113937136 #EEE #mosquitos #death #outbreak #virus #NewYork
ABC News · New York reports death from EEE after 1st case diagnosed in nearly a decade
Another case of EEE (which is nasty, nasty, nasty) in New York.
A community for scientists and science communicators.Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell@scicomm.xyz)Attached: 1 image
New York State has reported a human infection of #EEE, a nasty mosquito-borne illness that can kill or cause long term neurological problems. This makes at least the 11th case reported so far this year. Seven states (MA, VT, NH, NJ, RI, WI & now NY) have recorded human cases in 2024.
Dengue case in... Baldwin Park (Los Angeles County), California. 
"...The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health this week confirmed a local dengue case, the third reported in the state since 2023.
In a statement, the department said the patient is a resident of Baldwin Park and had no history of travel to areas where the mosquito-borne virus is endemic. An alert to providers said the patient and household members had not traveled domestically or internationally ..."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/california-officials-confirm-local-dengue-case
CIDRAPCalifornia officials confirm local dengue case
The Transmission (Headlines):
"A New Hampshire man is fighting for his life because of a mosquito bite. Fifty-four-year-old Joe Casey of Kensington has tested positive for three mosquito-borne viruses, including eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile Virus..... He was positive for EEE, for West Nile, and St. Louis Encephalitis, but the CDC, the infectious disease doctors, they don’t know which one is making him this sick..."
@fifilamoura
Good grief. I didn’t know (Eastern) Equine Encephalitis could infect humans.
"He was positive for EEE, for West Nile, and St. Louis Encephalitis, but the CDC, the infectious disease doctors don't know which one is making him this sick,"
Grist: How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness https://grist.org/health/eee-triple-e-climate-change-eastern-equine-encephalitis-mosquito-borne-illness/ #mosquitos #ClimateEmergency #EEE #disease
Grist · How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness
You can tell I have lived a sheltered and privileged life, because whenever #mosquitos bite my ankles, in the moment, I swear its the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
CIDRAP: New Hampshire reports fatal EEE case
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/eastern-equine-encephalitis/new-hampshire-reports-fatal-eee-case #encephalitis #mosquitos #NH #NHwx #encephalitis #disease
www.cidrap.umn.eduNew Hampshire reports fatal EEE caseThe state's epidemiologist says New England may be at elevated risk for eastern equine encephalitis this year, based on mosquito surveillance.
#mosquitos are something else this week. #nj #newjersey #bugs
PBS: New Hampshire resident dies after testing positive for eastern equine encephalitis https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/new-hampshire-resident-dies-after-testing-positive-for-eastern-equine-encephalitis #mosquitos #disease #encephalitis #death
PBS News · New Hampshire resident dies after testing positive for eastern equine encephalitisThe Hampstead resident's infection was the first in the state in a decades.
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This underscores a point I try to make from time to time, when I sound more bearish about the future of humanity than the climate scientists are: What threatens humankind is more than just the first-order effects of Climate.
You see Trump and others characterizing the Climate movement as a fear that we will drown from sea level rise. That's not the risk. There are secondary and tertiary risks, such as crop failures and consequent famine. But migration of animals of all kinds will happen, and some of those animals are as small as mosquitos.
This means that climate scientists are not the only experts we should be talking to in order to understand the climate problem. Diseases, insects, crops, etc. will become increasingly important. Not only are climate experts at risk of experiencing "Peter Principle" effects if they stretch too far, pretending expertise in areas they don't have, but we as a public will be blind to important dimensions of risk analysis that only an expert in these other fields would see.
In effect, it means that if a climate expert tells you about a certain set of risks, they are almost necessarily low-balling that risk for lack of ability to cover the space. And it means we as a public are planning timelines that are way too generous.