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On Friday a new report is out with an easier solution for mosquito problems. The idea is to infect the mosquito so to shorten its life span and cause an early death.
This idea came up after a research done by Australian researchers concluding that old mosquitoes are more deadly and dangerous as they are efficient agents to spread out diseases. So they thought to find out a way so that these can die at an early young age naturally.
Previously efforts had been made to make mosquitoes resistant to diseases like malaria and dengue. These two diseases have caused massive number of deaths around the world in the past few years. A mosquito takes almost two weeks to make it a deadly weapon to spread disease.
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An infectious disease expert says that dangerous bacteria that were normally found in soil and water are on the increase in hospitals worldwide.
Mathew Falagas, who is director of the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Science in Greece, says that Acinetobactor baumannii accounts for almost 30 percent of drug-resistant hospital infections and it is more resistant that MRSA superbug.
Falagas, who is also a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, says in a telephone interview, “A baumannii infections are on increase in various hospitals worldwide. As these bugs are resistant to most agents and that’s why these infections are difficult to treat.”
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According to the researchers (from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), the lack of a specific bacterium in the gut can become the cause of Crohn’s disease.
The lack of naturally-produced bacteria may activate the inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder because of over-stimulate immune system.
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is the bug that has been highlighted by a French team. The researchers say that the bug secrets such biochemicals as decrease inflammation.
The study has been presented in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The researchers has also identified that Crohn’s disease patients have a noticeable deficiency in Clostridium leptum group’s bacteria.
