{"id":18904,"date":"2016-11-01T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2016-11-01T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:02:12","slug":"researchers-study-the-possibility-of-using-carnivorous-plants-against-zika-transmitting-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/researchers-study-the-possibility-of-using-carnivorous-plants-against-zika-transmitting-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Study the Possibility of Using Carnivorous Plants against Zika-Transmitting Mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/plantas-carnivoras-mosquito-zika.jpg\" alt=\"plantas-carnivoras-mosquito-zika\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/plantas-carnivoras-mosquito-zika.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/plantas-carnivoras-mosquito-zika-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/plantas-carnivoras-mosquito-zika-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Argentine scientists are investigating the possibility that the carnivorous plants help fighting the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, Zika disease, chikungunya and other diseases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinean Association of Carnivorous Plants (AAPC) joined a research project at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, to study the properties of some carnivorous plants, with the aim of fighting <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There are some [carnivorous plants] that are aquatic and eat mosquito larvae<\/em>,&#8221; AAPC President Federico Parrilli told Sputnik News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>However, the expert stressed that the <strong>research is at very early stages, and it will take a long time to use these plants as a prevention strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We were invited to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to collaborate with a pond of aquatic carnivorous plants. They want to see if they can be used as biological control; but we must see if it is feasible. You cannot spread [these plants] without studding them well<\/em>,&#8221; Parrilli said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that <strong>some species of the family called <em>drosea<\/em>, as the Venus flytrap (<em>Dionaea muscipula<\/em>), became popular a few years ago in the fight against Aedes aegypti; but they resulted ineffective<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>These plants were used as a marketing tool, he explained. It was claimed that as these plants catch mosquitos, they could be used to prevent mosquito borne diseases. &#8220;<em>They might trap a mosquito, but the amount they can catch is not significant<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The association brings together people who are dedicated to collecting carnivorous plants in Argentina to promote his study. Although it was conceived originally from a &#8216;hobby&#8217;, the organization works for the conservation of varieties of these plants.<\/p>\n<p>According to Parrilli, <strong>carnivorous plants are not dangerous to humans<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>None of them has thorns, nor is poisonous, or anything that might cause some sort of physical harm, either in humans or pets, unless the pet is a fly<\/em>,&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>Agencia ID<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine scientists are investigating the possibility that the carnivorous plants help fighting the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, Zika disease, chikungunya and other diseases. The Argentinean Association of Carnivorous Plants (AAPC) joined a research project at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, to study the properties of some carnivorous plants, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18920,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}