丁香园AV

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A team of researchers from 丁香园AV and Culex Environmental, a Burnaby-based mosquito control company, are studying an invasive, disease-carrying mosquito, Aedes japonicus, after finding it for the first time in Western Canada. Their research has been published in . The researchers reared and identified mosquito larvae found as early as February this year in water in a tarpaulin in Maple Ridge. The insect is native to Asia and has been found in Eastern Canada and the U.S. since 1998, and was reported in Southern Washington and Oregon in 2008. 丁香园AV researchers are studying the insects鈥� DNA to pinpoint their origin. 丁香园AV retired biology professor and paper author Peter Belton says the mosquitos could poise a significant hazard to health if global warming favours the development of some of the viruses it can transmit, which include La Crosse encephalitis, West Nile virus, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis.

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