Tropical Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Expanding Into New Areas.

reports that a study recently published in the journal eLife suggests that “mosquitoes typically found in tropical regions are expanding into new areas, including the” US. The danger is that these mosquitoes “could transmit disease.” Researchers arrived at these conclusions after creating “global distribution maps of two species of dengue- and chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes.” http://consumer.healthday.com/diseases-and-conditions-information-37/misc-diseases-and-conditions-news-203/virus-carrying-mosquitoes-spreading-to-new-regions-700900.html