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What's Medical Entomology?

What's medical entomolology? Anyone who's an entomologist or who works in entomology is asked that...

Thomas Scott in Kenya

IN KENYA--UC Davis medical entomologist Thomas Scott, towers above schoolchildren in Kenya in a photo taken in 2004. (He's 6-foot, 6-inches tall.)

Mosquito that tranmits dengue

THE CULPRIT--This is the mosquito, Aedes egypti, that transmits dengue. UC Davis entomologist Thomas Scott is a leading authority on the mosquito and the disease. See http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/tomscottdengue.html. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 12:17 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: dengue (11), Lyme disease (1), malaria (9), medical entomology (3), River Blindness (1), Thomas Scott (14), West Nile virus (3), yellow fever (1)