Mosquito & Vector News
Oral Flea Preventive to Control Rickettsia typhi–Infected Fleas on Reservoir Opossums, Galveston, Texas, USA
Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Comittee Blanton LS, Villasante-Tezanos A. Oral Flea Preventive to Control Rickettsia typhi–Infected Fleas on Reservoir Opossums, Galveston, Texas, USA, 2023–2024. Emerg Infect Dis. 2025;31(6):1193-1196. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3106.241817…
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming
Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Comittee by Sarah Zhang https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-man-eater-screwworm-is-coming/ar-AA1FzlCJ? The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite…
Time-of-day changes in permethrin susceptibility and metabolic gene expression in Florida Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
SM Schluep et al. 2025. Journal of Medical Entomology, 62(2), 2025, 389–398 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf013 A better understanding of time-of-day variation in insecticide resistance mediated by detoxifying enzymes in Ae. aegypti could…