That’s how neuroscientist Meg Younger describes her team’s findings about how skeeters hone in on human aromas. And that could lead to better ways to keep us bite- and disease-free.
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All U.S. blood donations should be screened for Zika, FDA says
The recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration represent a major expansion in testing blood for Zika. The agency had earlier advised testing only in areas with an active outbreak.
State’s mosquitoes have transmitted Zika virus, Florida governor says
Officials say they’ve found the first indication that mosquitoes are transmitting Zika virus in the U.S. Four people in South Florida are infected; travel or sexual transmission has been ruled out.
Alaska’s first Zika case is in Sitka
The state department of Health and Social Services announced the first known case of the Zika virus in the state July 22, belonging to a patient treated at SEARHC’s Mt. Edgcumbe Hospital in Sitka.