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Costa Rica: Screwworm becomes a threat to humans and animals

Published on: August 5, 2025
08:27

San José, August 5 (Prensa Latina) The screwworm remains a serious threat to humans in Costa Rica today, with 56 people infected this year alone, and to livestock, with 356 new infected animals in one week, a specialized agency reported.

Aedes aegypti’s mechanism for infecting humans deciphered

Published on: August 26, 2024
11:23

Washington, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The Aedes aegypti mosquito uses infrared to detect and reach its goal of biting humans, a study published in Nature shows.

Humans pass more viruses to animals than they to humans – Study

Published on: March 28, 2024
17:34

Washington, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts believe the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic flowed from bats.

Third case of equine encephalitis transmitted to humans in Uruguay

Published on: February 13, 2024
14:03

Montevideo, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) on Tuesday confirmed the third human case of equine encephalitis in Uruguay.

Bird songs and human speech use similar patterns

Published on: June 24, 2021
07:09

Ottawa, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) A research on song phrases of many songbird species follow patterns that are similar to those used in human speech, a fact that could be influenced by physical factors of the songbirds, the scientific journal Current Biology published.

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