Abstract
After a 40-year hiatus, the International Congress of Entomology (ICE 2016) convened in Orlando, Florida (September 25-30, 2016). One of the symposia at ICE 2016, the Zika Symposium, covered multiple aspects of the Zika epidemic, including epidemiology, sexual transmission, genetic tools for reducing transmission, and particularly vector competence. While there was a consensus among participants that the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is a vector of the Zika virus, there is growing evidence indicating that the range of mosquito vectors might be wider than anticipated. In particular, three independent groups from Canada, China, and Brazil presented and discussed laboratory and field data strongly suggesting that the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, also known as the common mosquito, is highly likely to be a vector in certain environments.
Highlights
The International Congresses of Entomology (ICEs) are the “Olympics of Entomology,” which started in 1910 in Brussels, Belgium
It is only the third time that ICE has been held in the United States of America (USA), the last conference being 40 years ago when delegates convened in Washington, DC for XV ICE
With 6,682 delegates, ICE 2016 was undoubtedly the largest gathering of scientists in the history of entomology. This Opinion article is based mainly on the current literature and the Zika Symposium at ICE 2016, which was organized by Dr Constância Ayres, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ-PE), Recife, Brazil, and Dr Adriana Costero, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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