Aedes aegypti mosquitoes detected in Altus, Oklahoma

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) began a collaborative mosquito surveillance project with Oklahoma State University (OSU) entomologists this Spring to detect the possible presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in six different Oklahoma communities. Aedes aegypti are considered the primary mosquito carrier of the Zika virus in South and Central America and the Caribbean ["]