The body of a female mosquito fills up and balloons as she sucks blood from a photographer’s hand at Everglades National Park in Flamingo, Florida. (Photo by Tom Ervin/Getty Images) By Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University AgriLife Among the inevitable fallout stemming from the ocean of water dumped on…
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo. (Vanguardia.com photo) By Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Staff Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, M.D., Ph.D, a distinguished physician-scientist recognized as the creator of the first synthetic vaccine against malaria, will give two presentations open to all students, faculty and staff April 27-28. Patarroyo, a professor of molecular…
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a principal vector of the Zika virus. Photo by Gabe Hamer. Texas A&M AgriLife recently received a substantial monetary boost to bolster its aggressive fight to stem the spread of vector-borne diseases for the public good, said Dr. David Ragsdale, Texas A&M University entomology…