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A building boom is one factor helping an invasive, malaria-carrying mosquito make its home in urban Ethiopia. Emory disease ecologist Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec is studying ways to control the dangerous new pest in Africa.
For mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever, the abundance of the insects in places where people gather has long served as the main barometer for infection risk.
Emory scientists have found Heartland virus circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia. Their research adds new evidence for how the tick-borne virus may evolve and spread geographically and from one organism to another.