Meet Canada’s mosquito hunters
s the Zika virus spreads across the Americas—it’s now circulating in 26 countries and regions—Canadians have been told we’re at low risk of becoming infected. The type of mosquito that spreads the virus, called Aedes aegypti, doesn’t live here. But Fiona Hunter, an entomologist at Brock University, notes that other types of mosquito can spread the virus—maybe even some in Canada. In her special containment lab at Brock University, she’s trying to answer the question: could Canadian bugs spread Zika, too? Read Kate Lunau’s full story.
Aedes aegypti mosquitos are seen in containers at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, on January 8, 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal are in Brazil to train local researchers to combat the Zika virus epidemic. / AFP / NELSON ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)