Tag: mosquito
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Biologics and drugs are not the sole solution
Consider the chemical war on mosquitoes. Mosquito has been the vector of so many diseases including malaria and dengue that it makes one wonder whether we are capable of winning this battle with the mosquito. This little pest has probably killed more humans than all wars combined and yet we have not been able to…
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Malaria games
We think that image processing problems are difficult and interesting but there are others that elude us all the time. Malaria, a mosquito borne illness affects nearly 600,000 patients per day. The diagnosis unfortunately in many countries still uses the traditional Giemsa stain of blood. This requires a pathologist to study the slides and then…