Mosquito monitoring saves lives and money, analysis finds

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 18:20 in Health & Medicine

Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis. The research was prompted by a US government proposal last spring to slash funding for the vector-borne disease program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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