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Oxitec has conducted similar trials in Brazil, Panama, and the Cayman Islands, reducing the populations of Aedes aegypti more than 90 percent, the company previously reported.

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He said more than 27,000 people in the country were affected by the illness and dengue and chikungunya, two other diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

The team is also interested in learning more about where the viruses replicate in mosquitoes, and by potentially examining yellow fever, a fourth virus that is carried by Aedes aegypti, as a possibility for coinfection with chikungunya, dengue or Zika viruses.

The scientists have successfully introduced it into an entirely new host: Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads the virus that causes dengue fever, which produces severe, flulike symptoms and rash and, in its more dangerous hemorrhagic form, can be fatal in about 5 percent of cases.

Other vector species — C. declarator, A. aegypti, C. chidesteri, Limatus durhami and C. lygrus — were also found more frequently in the urban parks.

There are many more A. aegypti to spread Zika in Brazil — which saw up to an estimated 1.3 million infections in 2015 alone — than in the United States.

«What's more, researchers have shown that while relatively rare, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are able to transmit Zika to their offspring, a mechanism allowing the virus to survive from one season to the next.»

Efficacy trials in Brazil, Panama, and the Cayman Islands showed that this approach has helped reduce the Aedes aegypti population by more than 90 percent, Oxitec said.

Fumigating the streets Blackout or not, there is something much more perilous lurking around some of Brazil's well - lit stadiums: dengue fever, a tropical disease carried by mosquitoes, mostly the Aedes aegypti kind.

In Washington D.C., for example, where Aedes aegypti is not common now, it might become more common if the winters get milder.

Several more projects explicitly focus on gene drive applications: A group at UC Riverside led by molecular biologist Omar Akbari will try to document the genetic diversity of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and test ways to limit or reverse gene drives in contained test environments.

A second species, Aedes aegypti, the yellow - fever mosquito, has a more limited geographic footprint and bites only people.

Zika virus infection has spread to more than 45 countries in the Americas and 3 US territories, and, most recently, local transmission was confirmed in the continental United States in the state of Florida.11 Mosquito - borne transmission of ZIKV in other areas of the United States is possible based on the estimated range of its vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus).12 Recognition of the CZS phenotype by pediatric clinicians will help ensure appropriate and timely evaluation and follow - up of affected infants.

But Eisen cautioned that, as is being seen in Arizona, it will take more than just the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to cause a dengue outbreak.

What's happening is that climate change is causing temperatures to rise on the continent, which makes it more hospitable to the Aedes aegypti mosquito (especially southern and central Europe).