<I>Aedes aegypti</I> (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

<I>Aedes aegypti</I>

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A vacuum tube holds a blood-fed strain of Aedes aegypti -- the mosquito that carries the Zika virus -- in place under a microscope in a research lab insectary in the Hanson Biomedical Sciences Building at UW-Madison.

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Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison

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