Mosquito & Vector News

Florida’s dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental U.S. in decades

Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Strobe, M. 5 Oct. 2026. Los Angeles Times.   Florida has reported more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year, making the outbreak…

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Resistance to pyrethroids in Aedes aegypti: Insights into transcriptomic response to different insecticide concentrations

Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Muñoz AM, Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Lowenberger C, Saavedra-Rodríguez K, Triana-Chávez O (2026) Negl Trop Dis 20(9): e0014144. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014144 Abstract Insecticide spraying is a common strategy…

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Relapsing fever revisited: New insights into neglected borrelial infections

Submitted by the MVCAC VVBD Committee Cutler SJ (2026) Negl Trop Dis 20(9): e0014737. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014737   Abstract Why revisit our understanding of relapsing fever and their causative spirochaetes? We have…

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Association Updates

News Briefs 9.23.2026

New Resource: Public Health Pesticides Webpage; As Mosquito Season Grows, Scientists Fight Back With More Mosquitoes; New Resource: Conenose Bugs Fact Sheet; News Worth Repeating; Upcoming Events; MVCAC 95th Annual…

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News Briefs 9.9.2026

$250,000 Secured in the State Budget for DART; Hannah Romo Appointed Chief of CDPH Vector-Borne Disease Section; News Worth Repeating; Upcoming Events; MVCAC 95th Annual Conference; Research Papers; MVCAC Issue…

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$250,000 Secured in the State Budget for DART

MVCAC successfully secured $250,000 in one-time funding in the California State Budget for the UC Davis Arbovirus Research and Training (DART) Laboratory, helping protect a critical statewide resource for mosquito…

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