Health Watch-14: Asian Tiger Mosquito

A Mosquito Goes Global
Martin Enserink

The Asian tiger mosquito is on a rampage. Entomologists are impressed, public health officials are nervous, and many of the rest of us are swatting furiously. How did Aedes albopictus become such a scourge?

Full story at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5878/864?sa_campaign=Email/sntw/16-May-2008/10.1126/science.320.5878.864

More about Asian Tiger Mosquite from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Tiger_Mosquito

Grateful thanks to www.sciencemag.org and Wikipedia.