H5N1: Brazil: Zika in house mosquitos requires 'radical change'

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Zika, mosquitos, public health, Brazil

> http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/07/brazil-zika-in-house-mosquitos-requires-radical-change.html <http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/07/brazil-zika-in-house-mosquitos-requires-radical-change.html>
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> Brazil: Zika in house mosquitos requires 'radical change'
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> Via g1.globo.com: Transmissão de Zika por pernilongo comum requer 'mudança radical' em medidas de controle <http://g1.globo.com/bemestar/noticia/2016/07/transmissao-de-zika-por-pernilongo-comum-requer-mudanca-radical-em-medidas-de-controle.html>.[Transmission of Zika by house mosquito requires 'radical change' in control measures] Edited excerpt from the Google translation:
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> Biologist Constância Ayres, of Fiocruz Pernambuco, has made an unprecedented discovery that has the potential to provide a leap in scientists' knowledge of the Zika virus, and radically change the Brazilian strategy of preventing it.
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> Ayres succeeded in finding for the first time, mosquitoes carrying the virus in nature.
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> On Thursday, Fiocruz officially announced that the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, known as muriçoca or house mosquito, can also transmit the virus that causes microcephaly and malformations in babies.
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> Until then, scientists believed that the mosquito Aedes aegypti was the main virus vector in Brazil. Now, according to Ayres, scientists need to determine which of the two species is the more important in Brazil's Zika epidemic.
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> In making the announcement, Fiocruz said that until it understands the importance of the mosquito in the epidemic, Zika control policy will remain focused on Aedes aegypti.
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> But depending on the results, it would take a "radical change" in the current current strategy of epidemic control, says the researcher.
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> "There are no Culex control strategies in Brazil. This will have to change radically," she says.