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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

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

Debugging: How to avoid insect-borne diseases

May 22, 2018

The CDC reports that the number of Americans infected by insect-borne illnesses has more than tripled since 2004.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2018, bites, bugs, climate change, DEET, disease, global, insects, medicine, mosquities, mosquito, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, protect yourself, research, rocky mountain spotted fever, spread, stephen prescott, summer, temperature, ticks, tips, vector, water, West Nile, wet

Going viral: Why are fast-spreading viruses becoming so common?

September 27, 2016

While mechanisms of viruses are complex, the reasons behind their spread aren’t.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2016, bird flu, brazil, bubonic, constant, DEET, disease, Ebola, ecosystem, epidemic, flu, history, influenza, international, medicine, mosquitoes, new, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, Pandemic, plague, planes, populations, rats, research, rodents, sars, shipping, spread, stephen prescott, steve prescott, Swine Flu, travel, vectors, venice, virus, viruses, warming, West Nile, year, yellow fever, zika

The science of West Nile virus

August 16, 2012

Area West Nile deaths prompt extra precaution for those at high risk

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bites, bug spray, DEET, encephalitis, menningitis, mosquito, mosquitoes, neurological damage, repellent, virus, viruses, West Nile, West Nile fever, West Nile virus

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