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When dengue fever hijacks mosquito behavior
What if the virus were directly manipulating its own vector? Louis Lambrecht and his team, including Félix Hol, have discovered that mosquitoes infected with dengue fever take smaller blood meals—and therefore bite more often. It’s a viral strategy that’s as clever as it is alarming.
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© Script: Jeanne Fenouil and Sacha Tembe - Filmmaking: Jeanne Fenouil (video in french, english subtitles available translated by AI)
Does dengue fever hijack mosquitoes' brains?!
Louis Lambrecht and his team, including Félix Hol, have discovered that infected mosquitoes take smaller blood meals...
As a result, they bite more often.
So they infect more people. An extremely clever... and scary viral strategy.