Posts Tagged: yellow fever
Taylor Kelly's Exit Seminar: Targeting Yellow Fever Mosquito and Pyrethroid Resistance
Remember back in 2013 when scientists verified the reintroduction of the yellow fever...
The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Doctoral Candidate Lindsey Mack: Zeroing in on the Yellow Fever Mosquito
Doctoral candidate Lindsey Mack of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey...
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. (Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Record Amounts of Rainfall Create Perfect Conditions for Mosquitoes
Mosquito Awareness Week, observed April 16 - 22, 2023, educates California residents about...
Congrats to UC Davis Postdoc Olivia Winokur: Winner of AMCA's Hollandsworth Prize
Congratulations to UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia...
Congratulating Olivia Winokur (center), recipient of the Hollandsworth Prize for best student presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) annual conference are Casey Crockett (left), AMCA Student Competition coordinator, and Dennis Wallette, 2022-2023 AMCA president.
Spatial Repellent 'Significantly Lowers Risk' of Virus Transmission of Yellow Fever Mosquito
A highly controlled clinical study in Iquitos, Peru shows that a spatial repellent used as an...
Iquitos, the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province and Loreto Region, is the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, as well as the ninth-most populous city of Peru. Iquitos is also known as the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road, it is accessible only by river and air, according to Wikipedia. (Photo courtesy of Tom Scott)
UC Davis medical entomologist Thomas Scott (center) and project scientist Amy Morrison and a prior team in Iquitos. (Archived photo courtesy of Tom Scott)