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According to Thailand's Public Health Ministry, 110 persons have been infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus since January of this year
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The Zika virus primarily affects pregnant women and their babies who have been reported to develop physical deformities.
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Prof. Xiaoguang Chen and his team from Southern Medical University, China investigated the infection and transmission of Armigeres subalbatus to Zika virus and dengue virus. They found that Zika virus but not dengue virus (serotype 2) can infect Ar. subalbatus via blood meal and artificial urine, and the infected mosquitoes can transmit Zika virus to suckling mice by bite. This study was recently published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty.