Brazilian research detects Zika, chikungunya viruses in mosquito eggs
A study by nine scientists from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) has detected Aedes aegypti mosquito eggs already carrying the ZIKV virus, which causes Zika, and the CHIKV virus, which causes chikungunya. The result demonstrates the vertical transmission of the virus, when it is passed from adult females to larvae deposited by them. The eggs then hatch and the new mosquitoes are born with the virus.The study was published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical LINK 1, under the title Detection of arboviruses in Aedes aegypti through transovariananalysis: A study in Goiânia, Goiás.The transmission method discovered for the two infectious diseases is different from the well-known horizontal one, where a mosquito bites an infected human being or animal, becomes conta...