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Post date: Jun 26, 2014 3:32:49 PM
Last week, a team led by Carlos Guerra, from CDDEP, published an article at Parasites & Vectors. I was part of the team, and so were some of my favorite scholars from across the globe.
The article describes a comprehensive database of the data extracted from mosquito mark-release recapture studies over the past century. Since mark-release-recapture studies were first used to study movement of mosquito-borne diseases, over 3.3 million released mosquitoes have been released.
Why do we care? We believe that understanding how and how far mosquitoes move will help us to understand the transmission of malaria, dengue, and other mosquito-borne pathogens.
The project was part of the Mosquito Working Group of RAPIDD (Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics).
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