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CDC - Surveillance and Control of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the United States
http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/resources/vector-control.html

CDC recommends the use of an EPA-registered insect repellent
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/disease-qa.html

EPA - Insect repellents
http://www.epa.gov/insect-repellents

EPA - Insect repellent dataset (a link to the list is near the bottom)
http://www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/find-insect-repellent-right-you

Aedes aegypti - History of domestication and spread of Aedes aegypti - A Review
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762013000900011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

Aedes albopictus  - In the United States, it was initially found at the Port of Houston in a 1985 shipment of used tires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes found in Washington D.C.
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20160129-mosquito-species-carrying-zika-virus-found-in-washington-d-c

Getting Mosquitoes to Spread Poison to Their Own Larvae
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23obbug.html?_r=0

PNAS - Using adult mosquitoes to transfer insecticides to Aedes aegypti larval habitats
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/28/11530.abstract&link_type=GOOGLESCHOLAR

 

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