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Natasha Agramonte, PhD

@mosquitophd.bsky.social

Public Health Entomologist | PhD with nearly 20 yrs expertise in mosquito control operations, repellent/insecticide research, and public health entomology 🦟 πŸ¦ πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ« https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-3837

520 Followers  |  119 Following  |  52 Posts  |  Joined: 05.10.2023  |  1.9599

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What the heck, GA… it’s November! Why is it snowing?!? 🌨️πŸ₯Ά

10.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled that this paper is finally out and that I was able to contribute specimens from the metro Atlanta area. Congrats @yukihaba.bsky.social! πŸ¦ŸπŸ§¬πŸ”¬

30.10.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—žοΈ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

24.10.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TFW your sentient mops sit together and judge you for daring to give them routine medication without smothering it in peanut butter 🐢🐢 #YouCantSitWithUs #FloofsInNeedOfGrooming #SillyPuppers

18.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Molecular markers of reduced behavioral sensitivity to transfluthrin in Anopheles gambiae s.s. from Western Kenya - BMC Genomics Background The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors threatens vector control efforts. The use of spatial repellent products (SR) containing volatile insecticides such as t...

Important new work by Eric Ochomo & team at #KEMRI. Useful findings for understanding the potential impact of the promising #spatialrepellents approach for #mosquito #vector control & what we should be monitoring to assess early signs of resistance. ⬇️

bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

06.06.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's face it: Mosquitoes are the ultimate survivors!

They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2

06.06.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

03.05.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 505    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 16
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The measles outbreak in Texas shows no sign of slowing down. 🧡

13.04.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Third measles death This is not normal. For three reasons.

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

07.04.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 840    πŸ” 380    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 25
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54412    πŸ” 10243    πŸ’¬ 940    πŸ“Œ 499
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a bald man in a suit is saying i 'll never forget it ALT: a bald man in a suit is saying i 'll never forget it

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01.04.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” β€”Cory Booker

01.04.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5110    πŸ” 941    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 71
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High-level officials at Atlanta-based CDC announce departure The departures were described as retirements.

Eight members of CDC’s top management abruptly announce resignation, including 5 stepping down today. The departures were announced at a closed meeting of agency senior leaders this afternoon.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

25.03.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This will have immediate ramifications for local public health departments across the US

25.03.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.

β€œMailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.

25.03.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 429    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 26

This. Is. Huge.

25.03.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 888    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 8

Every federal employee's β€˜five things’ email this week needs to include β€˜did not text classified military operational plans to a reporter.’ #nationalsecurity #kakistocracy

25.03.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today make sure to avoid turtle shells 🐒, fireballs β˜„οΈ, and disease carrying insects 🦟 #Mar10Day #mosquito

10.03.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to be back amongst (most of πŸ₯²) my mosquito people, so of course I need a #mosquitoselfie to kick off my week at #AMCA2025

04.03.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes I am. I think we met briefly last year during an event at Deep Roots

02.03.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Measles – NFID Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:

* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized

* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia

* 1 to 3 in 1000 die

If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

26.02.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2181    πŸ” 831    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 35
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A person dies of measles in West Texas outbreak At least 124 cases have been reported in Texas, with at least 18 hospitalizations. Most are children.

First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

26.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1072    πŸ” 386    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 148

✊🏼😭

24.02.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Every day, they tackled complex issues with life-or-death stakes. They were hired after lawmakers debated and negotiated β€” sometimes over years β€” to make those problems someone’s job to solve. Then, this month, they were fired as part of President Trump’s widespread purge of federal workers.’

22.02.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@bluestein.bsky.social for clarity, this is the question that preceded that odd reply from Rep. McCormick. I was in attendance last night and a friend of mine took this video. Also, I don’t think he ingratiated himself with his constituents by mocking her accent.

21.02.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@nbcnews.com I was in attendance last night and a friend of mine took this video

21.02.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A federal judge says Georgia's political maps must be redrawn for the 2024 election A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

@nbcnews.com this district (GA 7th, formerly GA 6th) was recently gerrymandered to heavily favor Republicans in 2021-2023, in order to push out Lucy McBath

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

21.02.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A federal judge says Georgia's political maps must be redrawn for the 2024 election A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

A lot of us didn’t vote for him. This district was gerrymandered to heavily favor Republicans in 2021, going into effect in 2023-4. A judge says Georgia's congressional maps must be redrawn

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

21.02.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@bluestein.bsky.social, respectfully, hundreds of β€˜critics’ weren’t in attendance, we are his constituents and we wanted answers

21.02.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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