Date: October 4, 2017
Source: University of Florida Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences
As the large, invasive Burmese
python eats its way through south Florida's mammals, the mosquitoes in the area
have fewer types of animals to bite. Now, more mosquitoes are drawing blood
from a rat that carries a virus dangerous to humans.
One of the only mammals left in
the Everglades for mosquitoes to bite is the hispid cotton rat, a rodent which
is one of the only known hosts of a mosquito-borne virus called the Everglades
virus. The virus causes fever, headache and even encephalitis in rare cases.
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