Antonyms for aedes aegyptiaedes ae·gyp·ti

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1. yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegyptinoun

   mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue

   Synonyms:
   yellow-fever mosquito

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1. Peter Hotez:

   Aedes aegypti tends to be a day biter, but once it’s inside houses, it could bite anytime.

2. Carissa Etienne:

   Fumigation has high visibility -- high political visibility -- but we are not sure that it really is extremely effective in fighting the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

3. Andrew Monaghan:

   Meteorological factors certainly play an important role in determining the global range of the virus-transmitting Aedes (aegypti species of) mosquitoes and how competently they can transmit a virus.

4. Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry:

   Ours is actually much more of a precision instrument, we’re just trying to combat the one species that’s spreading disease at the moment— this Aedes aegypti.

5. Peter Jay Hotez:

   It's going to be a big concern as we go into the warmer spring and summer months, when we start seeing a large uptick in the Aedes aegypti (that carries Zika) on the Gulf Coast, we could see an uptick in Zika ... and if we start seeing a large number of Zika cases, the prediction would be that we would start to see Guillain-Barre and microcephaly.

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