Hill County mosquitoes could transmit Zika

Twenty-nine percent of Hill County’s mosquitoes could transmit the Zika virus, a new study suggests.

Hill County Weed District Supervisor Terry Turner said a new study by researchers at the University of North Dakota found that Aedes vexans, a type of mosquito indigenous to North America and the second-most plentiful of all the species in Hill County, has the capability of transmitting Zika.

Researchers, in an Entomology Today article dated May 12, said the Ae. vexans mosquito can serve as a “potential vector” for Zika virus because of its wide geographic distribution, often extreme abundance...