Posts Tagged: public health
Feral Cats and Their Impact in Communities
Many of us at UC IPM are cat lovers and owners. Cats are popular household pets that bring joy and...
Ticks and Lyme Disease
In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month and in response to some misinformation about ticks on...
Record Amounts of Rainfall Create Perfect Conditions for Mosquitoes
Mosquito Awareness Week, observed April 16 - 22, 2023, educates California residents about...
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira: Zeroing in on Circadian Rhythms in Parasitic Diseases
"In 2020, malaria deaths increased by 12 percent compared with 2019. The increases in malaria cases...
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira (left) won the Brown-Goldstein Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research in 2021 for her work investigating the circadian clocks of human parasites. This is the highest honor bestowed by the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Here she looks over data with world-renowned circadian rhythm researcher Joseph Takahashi. (Photo courtesy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas)
Ivermectin: Pesticide Misuse in Humans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory recently in response...