Mosquito Species In California Could Transmit Zika Virus Study Finds
A species of mosquito that has infected people with the Zika virus in at least two states has also been detected in California, according to a recently published study. According to the study, published in June 2018 in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, researchers at the University of California in Davis infected three species of mosquitoes — Californian Aedes aegypti, Culex tarsalis, and Culex quinquefasciatus — with Zika strains from 2015 outbreaks in Puerto Rico and Brazil, and a 1966 outbreak in Malaysia....