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Bodywork: Why are some people mosquito magnets?

September 14, 2021

I tend to draw mosquitoes like an ice cream truck does kids. While the same seems to hold true for my younger son, the bloodthirsty pests ignore my older son. What gives?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bite, bugspray, DEET, diseases, McEver, mosquitos, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, summer

Can insects transmit coronavirus?

May 12, 2020

Covid-19 and other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS are spread from person to person through tiny viral droplets, not through blood.

Filed Under: COVID-19 News, News Tagged With: bite, blood, bugs, Chakravarty, coronavirus, covid19, Eliza, insect, mosquito, mosquitoes, mosquitos, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, scientist-news, stephen, ticks, virus

Are Oklahomans at risk for EEE virus?

October 25, 2019

A dangerous mosquito-borne virus making the news recently is EEE, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Should Oklahomans take precations?

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bite, death, eastern equine encephalitis, eee, illness, inflammation, insect, mosquito, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, sick, virus

Lyme disease: A “ticking” time bomb?

October 1, 2018

Caused by a form of bacteria, Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through tick bites.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: antibiotics, bite, CDC, DEET, east coast, flu, Gary, gary gorbsky, Gorbsky, Hal Scofield, infected, insect, lyme, lyme disease, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, symptoms, tick, us

Spider-Man’s amazing (and scientifically challenging) powers

May 6, 2014

Could a radioactive spider bite really give you powers?

Filed Under: Education, Featured News, News Tagged With: bite, Courtney, courtney griffin, DNA, epigenetics, genes, Griffin, radioactive, scientist-news, spider, Spider-Man, venom

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