Tomorrow! Vector-Borne Disease Center Intern Symposium! 🦟 Students that have been funded through the CDC Vector-Borne Disease Centers will present their summer internship and field experiences through a series of lightning talks, including a RaHP VEC student! We can't wait to hear everyone's talk!

The Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District is #hiring for an Assistant Director! Please contact Ary Faraji at ary@slcmad.org or 801-355-9221 for further information and the application packet. Find the general job posting at the link in our bio. Application closes 30 June 2026.

Last week the District conducted several night trials with collaborators from Central Life Sciences. Check out some of these behind the scenes photos from the trials!

The weather this week has been perfect for spending time outdoors! Just remember that there are mosquitoes that will bite during the daytime as well as dusk and dawn! Be prepared and use an EPA-approved insect repellent to help reduce mosquito bites.🦟

Looking for ways to prevent ticks around your home? Check out these suggestions!

Wow, what a wonderful meeting between RaHP VEC & PacVec last week! Thank you to everyone who participated and attended. A big round of applause for all of our student presenters & collaborators. 👏 If you have any photos or memorable events from last week's meeting, share and tag them with us!

Today is the first day of the PacVec + @rahpvec.bsky.social joint annual meeting! 🦟 On Friday we will welcome attendees to our facility to end the meeting with student presentations, lightning talks, and a tour! We'll see you there!

Summer training internship applications with RaHP VEC are open! 🦟 We encourage current undergraduate (2- or 4- year institutions) and Master’s students to apply. 👉Visit rahpvec.us/training/int.... 👉Other materials needed to apply: a current CV/resume and unofficial transcript. #summerinternship

Mark your calendars and save the date for the PacVec and RaHP VEC joint meeting in April! 🦟When: April 8-10, 2026 🦟Where: Salt Lake City, Utah 🦟Agenda coming soon. We'll share updates as it gets closer! pacvec.us/pacvec-annua...

Let's introduce the partner institutions of RaHP VEC! We'll begin with the lead institution, Colorado State University. CSU is located in Fort Collins, CO. Principal investigators of RaHP VEC are based out of CSU & we'll dive deeper into that later. Learn more about RaHP VEC at the link in our bio.

Wishing everyone happy holidays from RaHP VEC! ❄️🦟✨

Check out the article here: journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Anthropophagic Florida mosquito species are poor vectors of prototype and emerging strains of oropouche virus

Author summary Oropouche virus (OROV) is an emerging virus that is spreading rapidly across tropical regions of the Americas. In 2024, over 100 travel-related cases were reported in Florida, raising c...

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Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Oropouche virus, known as "sloth fever," is unlikely to spread via common southeastern U.S. mosquitoes, reducing the risk of local transmission despite recent travel-related cases.

Hey everyone, we'll be at these meetings and conferences in 2026! If you are planning to be at any of these, let's get together and chat while we are there!

We are almost to the start of winter! Do you know what winter is good for? Reading! Did you know RaHP VEC has a blog? Check out blog posts written by RaHP VEC interns highlighting the work they conducted this season: rahpvec.blogspot.com

The mosquitoes that carry dengue and other dangerous diseases wouldn’t have been able to survive in Colorado before. Now they’re thriving in one community as temperatures warm.

A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive - Inside Climate News

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado.

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We want to give a huge thank you to each & every one of you who attended, presented, & supported the 77th annual UMAA Conference last week! Thank you to the sustaining members & sponsors of the UMAA! We appreciate all of our members & those who make events like this possible. See you next year!

Starting your job search or about to launch your first lab? 🚀 Join ✨Beyond the Degree: Thriving in Your Career✨ to hear from pros across different sectors on how to start strong and thrive in vector ecology! 🗓️Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰2:30 ET/11:30 AM PT 💻Register: shorturl.at/6gxlw

A new genetic study in Science overturns the myth of the “London Underground Mosquito,” revealing that this common urban insect originated not below the cities of modern Europe, but in ancient Mediterranean civilizations more than a thousand years ago. https://scim.ag/43xWovB

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...

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