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Zika Virus
& ContainerBreeding
Mosquito
Control
Figure 1.
Adult yellow fever
mosquito, Aedes
aegypti. Photo
credit: James
Gathany, CDC.
reported in Brazil as well as several counThroughout history, mosquitoes ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE
tries of South and Central America and the
Zika
virus
disease
(Zika)
is
caused
by
an
have transmitted some of the
emerging
mosquito-borne
virus
that
has
no
24 PESTWORLD
MAY/JUNE 2016 Caribbean. Only eight months later, Brazil
most important and deadly specific
totaled nearly 30,000 reported cases of inmedical treatment or vaccine. The
fection. The virus is now widespread in Brazil,
diseases to humans. Their virus is spread to people primarily through
and is continuing to spread throughout the
the
bite
of
an
infected
mosquito
in
the
Aedes
role in vectoring diseases
Americas as well as the Oceania and Pacific
genus, the same mosquito responsible for
such as malaria, West Nile, transmitting yellow fever, dengue fever and
Islands. In the United States, the Centers f