American Medicine Today visits with the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida.
The Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947. Though similar to other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, it is not fatal; however, Zika has been linked to severe birth defects in humans, which are the only carriers of the disease. We visit with Dr. Sudipta Seal, Interim Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department and Dr. Bradley Willenberg, Assistant Scientist at the College Of Medicine at UCF to learn more about a new mosquito surveillance tool which helps detect mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.
Learn more about this new technology from UCF here: http://tt.research.ucf.edu/the-buzz-on-tracking-disease-carrying-mosquitoes/
