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Can We Stop Mosquitoes From Infecting the World?
2016-02-01 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Somewhere beneath the mounds of snow covering Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill district, just steps from the Library of Congress, a cluster of tropical mosquitoes capable of carrying Zika and other viruses is holed up, waiting for spring. Washington, D.C. is well beyond the comfort zone for these mosquitoes-this species can't survive winters north of Alabama and South Carolina. But this colony has somehow hung on for four years, genetic evidence shows, making it the northernmost permanent outpost...
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