Human disturbance of ecosystems leads to increase in disease-transmitting mosquitoes
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
The changes that humans are making to the landscape are beneficial for mosquitoes that spread diseases such as Zika, chikungunya and dengue. This is what biologist Maarten Schrama and his colleagues write in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, saying, "If we know in which living environments mosquitoes thrive best, we can design our own living environment in such a way that the risk of outbreaks of mosquito-borne infectious diseases is minimal."