1. Already, the dengue virus and Rift Valley fever, which can cause people to vomit blood, have expanded their deadly range. 2. Aedes aegypti mosquitos, which carry the dengue virus, can breed in pools of still water as small as a coin. 3. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the carriers of the dengue virus. 4. Eleven days later, Olson said the saliva and the salivary glands of the mosquitoes were analyzed for the presence of dengue virus. 5. In dengue secondary infection, these antibodies are confused by the newly retrofitted dengue virus. 6. Officials had hoped that once the monsoon rains ceased in mid-September, the mosquitos that carry the dengue virus would stop breeding. 7. One bite from the striped Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the dengue virus, can inflict fever, joint pains and chills for weeks. 8. One way would be to develop a strain of mosquitoes that is genetically altered so that the dengue virus cannot reproduce in its body. 9. Some of the mosquitoes also were injected with the dengue virus. 10. The Aedes mosquito can carry the dengue virus, which causes fever, joint pains, chills and in some strains, brain hemorrhaging and death. |