Researchers Identify Zika In More Common US Mosquito.

reported that “for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, researchers have detected the Zika virus in Aedes albopictus...a finding that increases the number of U.S. states potentially at risk for transmission of the disease.” The Post added that “albopictus are more ubiquitous than the Aedes aegypti that have been the primary vector of the spread of Zika elsewhere in the Americas.” The mosquito “has a range as far north as New England and the lower Great Lakes.” The discovery was reported recently by the Pan American Health Organization “after researchers in Mexico confirmed the presence of Zika in Asian tiger mosquitoes captured in the state of San Luis Potosi and sent them to government labs for testing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/new-discovery-means-more-us-states-will-face-a-risk-from-zika/2016/04/29/497ffa98-0d59-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html