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Trial gives hope for better control of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks ANI | Updated: Feb 03, 2021 10:34 IST Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): An international study, led by QIMR Berghofer researchers, has shown that a new device that targets Aedes aegypti mosquitos could be extremely useful in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika. The randomised field trial used small, insecticide-treated, plastic mesh devices c...

FOR many years I lived abroad and visited Scotland only irregularly. On one of these visits I became aware of a new statue of a reclining man outside the old Sheriff Court on Edinburgh’s High Street. When I returned to live in Scotland I discovered that this was supposed to represent David Hume. Readers will no doubt know the statue. The figure is loosely draped in some sort of toga, he is clutching a weighty tome and is stretched out in a rather uncomfortable looking pose with his head t...