Aedes aegypti mosquito (IMAGE)

Utah State University

Aedes aegypti mosquito

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A female Aedes aegypti mosquito gets a blood meal from a human host. Utah State University biologist Norah Saarman, along with colleagues from University of California, Davis and Yale University, are studying landscape connectivity in the species, a primary vector for the spread of dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses in humans.

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James Gathany, CDC

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