Friday, 9 March 2018

Biologists document the secondary extinction of a disease-carrying mosquito following rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll




Date:  February 28, 2018
Source:  University of California - Santa Barbara

Summary:
The Asian tiger mosquito -- carrier of such diseases as dengue, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya and Zika -- appears to have vanished from Palmyra.

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