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Battling Dengue at a Field Station in Iquitos, Peru

This is Iquitos, Peru, known as the

UC Davis epidemiologist Amy Morrison knows Iquitos, Peru, like the back of her hand. Travelers...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (8), Amy Morrison (2), dengue (9), Iquitos (2), mosquitoes (2), Thomas Scott (14), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Health Innovation Pest Management

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 (8), dengue (9), dengue mosquito (2), Iquitos (2), PLOS (1), Steve Stoddard (2), Thomas Scott (14)

Mosquitoes Take the Spotlight: Front Line and Center

Aedes aegypti feeding on its host. (Photo by Jena Johnson)

Mosquitoes will take the spotlight, front line and center, this month. On Wednesday, April 8,...

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Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Jena Johnson (1), Michael Strand (2), Michael Strand (2), mosquitoes (2), Shirley Luckhart (1), Thomas Scott (14)

It's Like Winning the Triple Crown

James Carey teaching a UC Davis chemistry class “how to make one-minute videos on the properties of the elements in periodic tables.” The result: 540 one-minute videos, probably a world record. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's like winning the triple crown. The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America...

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Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 9:50 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: James R. Carey (1), Mohammad-Amir Aghaee (1), Pacific Branch Entomological Society of America (1), PBESA (1), Thomas Scott (14)

Global Burden of Dengue

Professor Thomas Scott, a worldwide expert on dengue, is pictured in Kenya.

Don't ever underestimate the threat of dengue. The mosquito-borne viral disease known as...

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Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 9:38 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (8), dengue (9), Nature journal (1), Thomas Scott (14)

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