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Synonyms for mosquito
məˈski toʊmos·qui·to

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  1. mosquitonoun

    two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

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  1. Anthony Fauci:

    Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.

  2. Tom Hudachko:

    We're looking at all potential contacts between the deceased patient and the new case, we're also doing mosquito trapping near the residence where these individuals lived to make sure this is not a potential route of transmission.

  3. Alexander Haddow:

    I read all of his papers and the papers that came out of the lab, we owe our basic understanding of many arboviruses and their associated mosquito and reservoir species to them.

  4. Cam Simmons:

    It's about resources, this is a nonprofit effort and there's only so much we can do right now. Obviously with the Zika emergency, there's more attention on mosquito-borne diseases, and hopefully that will change.

  5. Regulator Affairs Dr. Nathan Rose:

    So, mosquito-borne disease is a thing in the U.S., and it's likely to get worse in the future as a result of climate change [and] as these mosquitoes kind of move farther and farther northfrom the Gulf Coast into more and more of the continental U.S., so, the diseases are a big problem because these particular diseases don't have any effective vaccines or medications to treat them [and] the only way to control them is actually to control the mosquitoes that spread them...


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