{"id":38052,"date":"2016-03-14T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38052"},"modified":"2016-03-14T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:57:45","slug":"brock-scientist-in-brazil-for-zika-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/03\/brock-scientist-in-brazil-for-zika-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock scientist in Brazil for Zika summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University medical entomologist Fiona Hunter is in Brazil for a global summit seeking ways to combat a mosquito that transmits Zika virus, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Hunter participated in the conference \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entomologychallenges.org\/grand-challenges-summit-on-aedes-aegypti-mosquito-in-brazil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crisis in the Americas: Joining Together to Address a Grand Challenge<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 in Maceio, Brazil Sunday, March 13. The summit involved the international community of entomologists, discussing the <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquito.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0was\u00a0held in conjunction with the joint <a href=\"http:\/\/cbe2016.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian and Latin American Congresses of Entomology<\/a>. Hunter will spend a few days at the entomolgy congress before flying home later this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p>Hunter and her team at Brock are studying Zika\u00a0to see if Canadian mosquitoes can transmit the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, carefully sealed containers of Zika arrived at Brock\u2019s campus, sent by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The team is\u00a0growing the virus in cell culture so they can infect\u00a0colony\u00a0strains of<em>\u00a0Aedes aegypti<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Aedes albopictus<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0the virus.\u00a0They will be testing whether the virus can be transmitted between male and female mosquitoes during mating, as well as whether female mosquitoes can pass the virus on to their eggs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38059\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38059\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-38059 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo1-e1457963848414.jpg\" alt=\"Fiona Hunter is in Brazil for an entomology conference.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona Hunter is in Brazil for an entomology conference.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University medical entomologist Fiona Hunter is in Brazil for a global summit seeking ways to combat a mosquito that transmits Zika virus, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,41,1,5],"tags":[1356,3923,3924,3773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38060,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052\/revisions\/38060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}