NIH R01 · 2024
West Nile virus control through mosquitocidal avian bloodmeals
Project Summary West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, and the leading cause of domestically-acquired arboviral disease in the United States, resulting in significant disease and death every year among humans and other animals. Efficacious, vector-targeted interventions are critically needed, but current vector control methods (primarily insecticides sprayed into the environment) have been inadequate for WNV control. We have been developing and testing stations that contain endectocide-treated bird feed as a way to control WNV transmission to humans in the western U.S., the region which suffers from the highest incidence WNV disease in North America, by targeting the primary…
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