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By Ricardo Brito and Lucinda Elliott. BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - South America is seeing a surge in cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue during the southern hemisphere summer, prompting ...
Average highs and lows in summer (January) in Montevideo are 28 and 17 °C (82.4 and 62.6 °F), respectively, with an absolute maximum of 43 °C (109.4 °F); comparable numbers for Artigas in the northwest are 33 and 18 °C (91.4 and 64.4 °F), with the highest temperature ever recorded (42 °C or 107.6 °F). Winter (July) average highs and ...
Welcome to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, with all its fun in the sun – and little critters who want to take a bite out of you. Mosquitoes and ticks can transmit vector-borne illnesses, and ...
A mosquito's period of feeding is often undetected; the bite only becomes apparent because of the immune reaction it provokes. When a mosquito bites a human, it injects saliva and anti-coagulants. With the initial bite to an individual, there is no reaction, but with subsequent bites, the body's immune system develops antibodies. The bites ...
Orkin, the pest control specialists, ranked the top 20 cities with the worst mosquito problems based on the ... Mosquitoes love summer as much as we do. June, July and August are high season for ...
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Mosquito bites tend to create red, itchy bumps, Dr. Gary Goldenberg, a dermatologist practicing in New York City, tells Yahoo Life. “These are usually clustered” and tend to happen after you ...
Toxorhynchites rutilus, also known as the elephant mosquito or treehole predatory mosquito, is a species of mosquito in the family Culicidae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Unlike most species in the genus that populate the tropics, Tx. rutilus is endemic to temperate regions . [ 5 ]