Study focuses on using landscape connectivity to control deadly mosquito-borne viruses ANI | Updated: Feb 26, 2021 23:25 IST
Washington [US], February 26 (ANI): A recent study led researchers at Yale School of the Environment has developed a new method for tracking how the deadly yellow fever mosquito moves through the environment, a potentially critical tool for controlling the insect and the diseases it spreads.
The recent study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is a main vector of deadly diseases like dengue fever, chikungunya, and the Zika virus, which result in hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Because Ae. aegypti prefers to bite humans and there are no vaccines for many of these diseases they carry, developing methods to control these insects is imperative in the fight to control illness.
A machine-learning approach to track how yellow fever mosquito moves through the environment
The yellow fever mosquito (
Aedes aegypti) is a main vector of deadly diseases like dengue fever, chikungunya, and the Zika virus, which result in hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Because
Ae. aegypti prefers to bite humans and there are no vaccines for many of these diseases they carry, developing methods to control these insects is imperative in the fight to control illness.
In a study recently published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Yale-led research team developed a new method to track how
A Yale-led research team has developed a new method for tracking how the deadly yellow fever mosquito moves through the environment, a potentially critical tool for controlling the insect and the diseases it spreads.
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IMAGE: 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,. view more
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LOGAN, UTAH, USA You might not like mosquitoes, but they like you, says Utah State University biologist Norah Saarman. And where you lead, they will follow.
In addition to annoying bites and buzzing, some mosquitoes carry harmful diseases.
Aedes aegypti, the so-called Yellow Fever mosquito and the subject of a recent study by Saarman and colleagues, is the primary vector for transmission of viruses causing dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika, as well as yellow fever, in humans.
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