Human movement plays critical role in understanding disease transmission
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 07:14
in Biology & Nature
To control mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, researchers need to look at the behaviour of people, not just the insect that transmits the disease, according to new research by Steven Stoddard of the University of California, Davis, and intercollegiate colleagues. The study, published 21 July in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, exhibits work by an international, multidisciplinary team of vector biologists, sociologists and virologists studying dengue in Iquitos, Peru...