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December 27, 2015

US and Mexico must work to prevent mosquito-transmitted epidemics
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 25, 2015
Despite the increasing risks of mosquito-transmitted epidemics in the United States and Mexico, policymakers in both countries have made little effort to prevent future outbreaks, according to a new policy brief by tropical-disease and science policy experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The number of mosquito-transmitted epidemics in the U.S. and Mexico is predicted to increase as the mosquito populations carrying so-called arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) move nort ... read more

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