Wednesday, June 15, 2016

County Map Shows Where Mosquitoes That Could Carry Zika Have Lived

County Map Shows Where Mosquitoes That Could Carry Zika Have Lived : Shots - Health News : NPR:
"On Thursday, CDC scientists published another mosquito map for the U.S. And it paints a very different picture.
Counties where Aedes aegypti was reported between Jan. 1, 1995, and March 2016. Counties in yellow recorded one year of A. aegypti being present; those shown in orange recorded two years; and those shown in red, three or more years.The new map shows counties in which scientists, over the past two decades, have collected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — the type of insect thought to be spreading Zika in Latin American and the Caribbean.
"The new map is more accurate than the initial one," says Thomas Scott, an entomologist at the University of California, Davis. "The distribution of the A. aegypti mosquito is much more restricted than the initial map showed."..."

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