Colorado School of Public Health

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

Written by National Public Radio (NPR) | February 08, 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.