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How to use the word AEDES in a Sentence?

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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.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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

Peter Hotez

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is strong evidence that Aedes albopictus is now out-competing aegypti in some areas and becoming more dominant.

Ralph Harbach

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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

John McNeill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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.

Peter Jay Hotez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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

John McNeill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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.

Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Fumigation has high visibility -- high political visibility -- but we are not sure that it really is extremely effective in fighting the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Carissa Etienne

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Meteorological factors certainly play an important role in determining the global range of the virus-transmitting Aedes (aegypti species of) mosquitoes and how competently they can transmit a virus.

Andrew Monaghan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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.

President Dilma Rousseff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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