When illegal gold reached Yanomami lands, malaria followed The malaria crisis in Yanomami territory is not simply a return of an old disease. It is the result of rapid environmental destruction driven largely by illegal gold mining and the deforestation it br...

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Check out the blog: "When illegal gold reached Yanomami lands, malaria followed" by Karina Mondragon-Shem

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BugBitten 2025 in review In this blog, we take a look back at the past year of the blog series BugBitten.

Let's take a look back at BugBitten's contributions!

From investigating the role of lice in Black Death to exploring the effect of sprays to help control malaria vectors, check out some key research and blogs featured in 2025!

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Parasites & Vectors Parasites & Vectors focusses on all aspects of the biology of parasites, parasitic diseases, intermediate hosts, vectors and vector-borne pathogens. Broader ...

Nominations for the 2026 Odile Bain Memorial Prize are open until the end of February!

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Mangroves and Malaria: Rethinking Risk in Coastal Ecosystems A new study offers insights into how mangrove extent and health intersects with vector ecology across Africa’s coastal zones. Findings suggest larger mangrove forests may reduce malaria risk, while de...

A new study offers insights into how mangrove extent and health intersect with vector ecology across Africa’s coastal zones.

Findings suggest larger mangrove forests may reduce malaria risk; denser mangroves may increase it.

➡️Read more: go.nature.com/48qfS7i

What do recent findings on insect sentience and welfare mean for vector research and control? In the field of public health, we conduct a variety of experiments and studies on insects, such as mosquitoes, to advance vector-borne disease research. However entomologists’ variable knowledge and a...

BugBitten's latest blog from @scianouk.bsky.social looking at the recent findings on insect sentience - what implications will this have on vector control? go.nature.com/47jeJ1S

Global Change, Pest Invasions, and Migration: Challenges for Rural Communities.

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The event will feature presentations by Antonio Biondi and Dr Samira Abuelgasim Mohamed

Molecular compatibility of malaria parasites in mosquito vectors Malaria parasites use a protein called P47 to survive inside mosquito vectors and evade their immune defences. By adapting P47 to local vectors, they ensure compatability and transmission, making P47 ...

this week on BugBitten - Daniel Parsons writes about the Molecular compatibility of #malaria parasites in #mosquito vectors - discussing a paper in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Noma is a devastating disease — yet far too little is known about it. A new study reveals just how serious the gaps in knowledge are; with limited information on the cause, how it develops, the… Prof Philippe Guerin talks about the global action needed to tackle noma disease

🎥 Our Director Prof Philippe Guerin talks about the devastating impact of #NTD #noma and highlights urgent research gaps revealed in a new global study.
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The Vector Verdict: Mosquitoes Acquitted! Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease prevalent across Europe and the US. Many patients however, do not recall a tick bite, leaving people wondering whether other arthropods like mosquitoes could be ve...

Mosquitoes are NOT vectors of Lyme disease virus - a study in Parasites & Vectors has proven through experimental work that mosquitoes are not vectors of the virus that causes Lyme disease

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Guardians of the earth: can the soil be ‘vaccinated’ to protect against nematode pathogens? Adding nematode collagen and chitin to soils could shape the microbiome, selecting for those microbes with the ability to fight these pathogen

Can the microbiome of soils be shaped 'by vaccinating the soil' to protect against pathogenic nematode? #worldmicrobiomeday

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Yellow fever virus is re-emerging and expanding its range. We took a deep dive into its virus-host protein interactions, and uncovered strategies of replication and evolution for this understudied virus. Read more here!

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Empowering the next generation of biologists with One Health skills and principles into an uncertain future Krisztian Magori summarizes the One Health-related research projects that students in his Disease Ecology Senior Capstone class completed this Spring quarter, demonstrating their work ethic and profes...

Our latest blog from BugBitten looks to the future - Empowering the next generation of biologists with One Health skills...
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Schistosomiasis is one of the topics that will be discussed at MSF Scientific Days next week @msfsci.bsky.social read this recent paper from Parasites & Vectors on the discovery of 2 new antischistosomal compounds parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Hidden in the blood – can blood microbiomes flag potential disease outbreaks? Many pathogens hide within wild animal populations, making it difficult to monitor, predict or prevent outbreaks of these infections in other animal or human populations. Recently, we learn that th...

Bugbitten blog looking at Animal Microbiome paper -

The Bacterial and pathogenic landscape of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) whole blood and serum from Kenya

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