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Mosquitoes Are in the News Three-Fold at UC Davis and Here's Why!

Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika viruses. (CDC Photo)

Mosquitoes are in the news three-fold at the University of California, Davis. First, there's the...

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Posted on Monday, May 23, 2016 at 4:40 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (19), Davis Science Café (1), Gregory Lanzaro (1), mosquitoes (4), Ralph Washington Jr. (1), TEDx Inspiring Talk (1), Walter Leal (8)

Interest Spiking in the May 26th UC Davis Zika Public Awareness Symposiun

Planning the symposium are (front, from left) Esmeralda Curiel, Irene Orellano Bonilla, Nepheli Neeta Aji, Amarita Singh, Professor Walter Leal, Nida Ahmed, Leah Uto and Navjot Grewal. In the second row (from left) are John Tenorio, Mahmoud Jabaieh, Holly Vickery, Justin Hildebrand (back), Savannah Tobin, Christian Wirawan (back), Justin Hwang, James Warwick and Andre Tran. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Zika virus is "scarier than we initially thought." So screamed a recent USA Today headline in...

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Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 5:28 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (19), UC Davis (6), Walter Leal (8), Zika Public Awareness Symposiium (1), Zika virus (6)

What You Should Know About the Zika Virus

Zika Flyer

The (Zika) virus is here, and so is the mosquito. The question is whether there will be enough of...

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Posted on Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (19), Culex quinquefasciatus (3), ICE (1), International Congress of Entomology (1), pregnancy (1), UC Davis (6), Walter Leal (8), Zika virus (6), Zika virus symposium (1)

Are Culex Mosquitoes Potential Vectors of the Zika Virus?

UC Davis chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal (front), confers with Constancia Ayres (far right, in black) and Rosângela Barbosa (center), faculty members in the Department of Entomology, FIOCRUZ-Recife. Both are Leal colloborators.

Scientists throughout the world targeted the Zika virus, transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito,...

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Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (19), Constancia Ayres (3), culex (1), Rosângela Barbosa (1), UC Davis (6), Walter Leal (8), zika virus (6)

Dengue: Yes, You Can Get It Again

Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that prefers human blood. (CDC Photo)

Medical entomologists are learning more and more about Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito...

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Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 6:03 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (19), dengue (8), dengue mosquito (2), Iquitos (2), PLOS (1), Steve Stoddard (2), Thomas Scott (8)

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