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Home News Ready, Aim, Suck Up Mosquitoes: An 'Insectazooka' Aims to Find the Next Killer Virus back to News

Ready, Aim, Suck Up Mosquitoes: An 'Insectazooka' Aims to Find the Next Killer Virus

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Written by NPR on February 8, 2023

FunSalud, a research team co-founded by Edwin Austrias, professor of epidemiology, is searching for emerging infectious diseases through mosquitos. "We're trying to focus on pathogens that just happen to be in the blood that the mosquito happened to suck up," says Dan Olson, part of the team and assistant professor of epidemiology.