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Mosquitos are no doubt pests, but did you know they’re also the creatures responsible for the most deaths worldwide? That’s because they sprea…
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And it could put a billion people at risk of deadly diseases.
Not all mosquitos can transmit the Zika virus, and that’s the case with any mosquito-borne pathogen.
Unless someone’s had symptoms of Zika virus disease within the first two weeks of returning from travel — the incubation period of the virus — the recommendation is not to test the person.
- Marissa Heffernan
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Researchers studying how targeting certain gene will disrupt mosquitoes ability to produce viable eggs.
- By Roger L. Miesfeld and Jun Isoe Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Up to 40 percent of the world’s population now lives in areas where Dengue virus-transmitting mosquitoes coexist with humans.
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