UF/IFAS Scientists Find Zika RNA in a Second Mosquito Species
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 09:41
in Biology & Nature
UF/IFAS entomology associate professor Chelsea Smartt led a research team that found Zika RNA in Aedes albopictus. That's not the species -- known as Aedes aegypti -- most often associated with Zika. But scientists have never discounted Aedes albopictus as another possible carrier of the potentially deadly virus.