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How do you manage an invasive species of fish that in only a few decades has spread up and down the Mississippi River, out-competing native species and becoming more than 90 percent of the total biomass of some river systems?
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Flaviviruses — a group of viruses transmitted by ticks or mosquitoes — infect an estimated 400 million people annually with diseases like yellow fever, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, and, most recently, Zika virus.
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Even in nations with strict online censorship laws, citizens can still bypass firewalls and access hidden information.
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Toni Calasanti was conducting a study on older adults who care for spouses or partners with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States.
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Virginia Tech researchers are studying how long SARS-CoV-2 survives on surfaces, focusing on its survival on food, food contact surfaces, and other points along the food supply chain.
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A team of Virginia Tech researchers will begin testing wastewater at 15 campus sites for the presence of COVID-19, enabling the university to more rapidly identify and respond to positive tests.
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Mobile phones have the power to change the lives of women living in remote communities by reducing barriers to information and increasing access to local economies.
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Doorknobs, light switches, shopping carts. Fear runs rampant nowadays when it comes to touching common surfaces because of the rapid spread of the coronavirus. A Virginia Tech professor has found a solution.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, people are beginning to understand, at a very personal level, the ways in which infectious diseases can devastate life. But disease outbreaks are not confined to just humans or to life on land.
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Obesity affects more than 40 percent of adults in the United States and 13 percent of the global population.
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