Scientisits, academics, medical experts and goverment institutions are being recruited to help collaborate on a project to track the activities of mosquitos in Scotland.
The project based in University of Glasgow, the MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research (CVR), the UK Health Security Agency and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, it has also been awared a £1.25 million grant from UK Research & Innovation.. The team have been collecting the data over the past year on the population and will soon be launching a website to ask members of the public to report insects they see.
The research is the first of its kind to assess the risk of mosquito – borne pathogen emergence in Scotland and take into account current and potential climate scenarios. The data is hoped to reveal how commonb they are, the types and looking into the biting and climatr change.
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