Can Florida mosquitoes transmit new strains of painful chikungunya virus?
(WorldNews Environment)

Researchers used a baseline comparison of infection and transmission rates of Florida mosquitoes to those from the Dominican Republic, a region associated with numerous human cases. Experts measured mosquito infection and transmission of the emergent strains of chikungunya -- Asian and Indian Ocean - in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. ......