Synonyms for aedes aegypti
aedes ae·gyp·ti

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1. yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegyptinoun

   mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue

   Synonyms:
   yellow-fever mosquito

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1. Peter Hotez:

   Aedes aegypti tends to be a day biter, but once it’s inside houses, it could bite anytime.

2. John McNeill:

   The Aedes Aegypti didn't exist in the Americas until the 16th century. That mosquito was brought from Africa to the Americas.

3. President Dilma Rousseff:

   We must wage war against the Aedes aegypti, the vector of dengue, of chikungunya and of Zika, while we do not have a vaccine against the Zika virus, the war must be concentrated on the elimination of breeding grounds for the mosquito.

4. Peter Jay Hotez:

   It's going to be a big concern as we go into the warmer spring and summer months, when we start seeing a large uptick in the Aedes aegypti (that carries Zika) on the Gulf Coast, we could see an uptick in Zika ... and if we start seeing a large number of Zika cases, the prediction would be that we would start to see Guillain-Barre and microcephaly.

5. Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry:

   Ours is actually much more of a precision instrument, we’re just trying to combat the one species that’s spreading disease at the moment— this Aedes aegypti.