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MANHATTAN — Kansas State University is helping the fight against Zika 1xbet online sports betting through mosquito research.

The university's Biosecurity 1xbet online sports betting Institute is taking a two-part approach: Researchers are studying mosquitoes to understand how they become infected with Zika 1xbet online sports betting and researchers are providing the 1xbet online sports betting to collaborative organizations for further study.

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"We are hoping to provide some answers and insights into the relationship between Zika 1xbet online sports betting and the mosquito," Higgs said.

Since Zika 1xbet online sports betting emerged in Brazil last year, the U.S. has seen more than 700 cases, including the first case in Kansas in March.

The Biosecurity Research Institute has had Zika 1xbet online sports betting isolates for several years, but has started conducting collaborative research because of the recent outbreak. University scientists have been growing samples of the 1xbet online sports betting and antibodies and providing them to collaborators for further research into vaccines and diagnostics.

"Countries are spending resources to control the spread of mosquitoes, we want to make sure we are controlling the right mosquitoes in the right way," Higgs said. "This research can help us target the particular species of mosquitoes that we know are carriers of Zika 1xbet online sports betting ."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified two mosquito species that transmit Zika 1xbet online sports betting : Aedes aegypti, or yellow fever mosquito, and Aedes albopictus, or Asian tiger mosquito. Both mosquitoes are widely distributed in the U.S. and are present in Kansas. These two mosquito species live close to people and can breed in houses, said Higgs, who also has studied chikungunya, a mosquito-borne 1xbet online sports betting that has a similar transmission cycle to that of Zika 1xbet online sports betting .

At the Biosecurity Research Institute, Higgs and university scientists are gathering details about how Zika 1xbet online sports betting interacts with different mosquitoes. Researchers are studying how long after a mosquito feeds on a blood meal that it can transmit Zika 1xbet online sports betting . The amount of time is unknown for Zika 1xbet online sports betting , but with other viruses it can range from five days to two weeks. Similarly, the research can show how much 1xbet online sports betting a person needs to have in their blood in order to infect a mosquito. If mosquitoes feed on a relatively low level, they may not become infected.

Only 1 in 5 people infected with Zika 1xbet online sports betting show symptoms, Higgs said, but it is possible that even people without symptoms may have enough 1xbet online sports betting in the blood to infect mosquitoes.

"As we learn how much 1xbet online sports betting is in human blood, knowing how much 1xbet online sports betting needs to be in the blood in order to infect a mosquito will tell us at what point after infection a person can infect another mosquito and for how long," Higgs said. "It is important to know these details because it can help us develop better controlling measures."

But there are still many unanswered questions relating to Zika 1xbet online sports betting , Higgs said. It is still unknown exactly what human cells are affected by the 1xbet online sports betting , if livestock are affected by the 1xbet online sports betting , what other transmission mechanisms are possible and when a vaccine may be available.

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"This research is important to prepare us long-term for the next 1xbet online sports betting that comes," Higgs said. "We can't predict what that will be, but there will be something else that will be introduced and we need effective surveillance programs to help control them. We need the fundamental research and applied research that we can get here at the Biosecurity Research Institute."

Higgs and collaborators have published their 1xbet online sports betting in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

Higgs is the president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and is an expert in vector biology, arthropod-borne infectious diseases, immune modulation and vaccine evaluation.

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Aedes aegypti, or yellow fever mosquito, is one of the mosquito species that transmits Zika 1xbet online sports betting . Research at Kansas State University's Biosecurity Research Institute is helping to develop methods to control mosquitoes that spread Zika 1xbet online sports betting .

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