Mosquito & Vector News
Florida’s dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental U.S. in decades
Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Strobe, M. 5 Oct. 2026. Los Angeles Times. Florida has reported more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year, making the outbreak…
Resistance to pyrethroids in Aedes aegypti: Insights into transcriptomic response to different insecticide concentrations
Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Muñoz AM, Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Lowenberger C, Saavedra-Rodríguez K, Triana-Chávez O (2026) Negl Trop Dis 20(9): e0014144. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014144 Abstract Insecticide spraying is a common strategy…
Relapsing fever revisited: New insights into neglected borrelial infections
Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Cutler SJ (2026) Negl Trop Dis 20(9): e0014737. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014737 Abstract Why revisit our understanding of relapsing fever and their causative spirochaetes? We have…