Pests -- United States
A few new breeds of mosquitoes have been turning up around San Diego County according to Chris Conlan, Supervising Vector Ecologist for the County. "The reason we're concerned about these new invasive species is that they have the capability to transmit things like Zika or dengue virus. That's the kind of stuff you normally would associate with a tropical trip," Conlan said.
These new mosquitoes are smaller than the native mosquitoes.
The _Aedes aegypti_, also known as the yellow fever
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6657836&promed&0
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