Leader Call: The Zika virus is tricky to track.
For Rochon, one of the lessons of West Nile virus, which still causes hundreds of cases in humans each year in Canada, is to check if viruses can be transmitted as Hunter is now doing.
In addition to surveying mosquitoes and viruses in the field, the biologists are developing mathematical models to discover how disease transmission by Aedes aegypti responds to temperature, important for predicting future changes in virus transmission under climate change,...