By 1985, it was too late. Researchers detected a type of mosquito called Aedes albopictus, native to Southeast Asia, in Harris County, Texas (1). Just 50 miles northwest from the Port of Galveston, they likely arrived a decade earlier in shipping containers stacked with used tires – an ideal refuge for a few mosquito eggs […]
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